Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG > > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is anybody advocating that we should try to "support unsupported > > > versions of libraries"? I'm certainly not. > > > Sure! That's what libc5 is. > > I'm not aware of even having mentioned libc5 in this thread (and I > don't remember anybody else doing it either).
Anthony's point, if I understand it right, is that we should only do this kind of aggressive versioning-in-the-names when we want to support unsupported versions of libraries, and that doing so is usually the wrong thing. But it is *sometimes* the right thing, and the canonical example is libc5. Libc5 is the counterexample to your implied assertion that nobody really cares about "supporting unsupported versions of libraries." Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
