Hello, Dag-Erling Smorgrav! On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:21:23PM +0100, you wrote:
> NIIMI Satoshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Without libfetch.so.2, upcoming 4.5-RELEASE will lose backward > > compatibility with previous 4.x releases. > > The only libfetch consumers (that I know of) are fetch(1) and the pkg > tools. Old binaries will still work on an upgraded system (which will > still have libfetch.so.2) but not on a fresh install (which will lack > libfetch.so.2), but both upgraded and freshly installed systems will > have up-to-date versions of fetch(1) and the pkg tools. Almost every http/ftp-accessing software (on C/C++), we wrote here uses libfetch, I suppose your reasons for not adding libfetch.so.2 to compat4x is not very good. We will need to rebuild and/or make symlink on every machine running libfetch. I think it is not right. > > Moreover, libfetch.so.3 is backward compatible, so a symlink should be > sufficient to support old binaries. The reason for the bump is that > new binaries will not work with an old library. Yes, it works for now. But if I need sell software to somebody, who runs 4.5-RELEASE he/she will say me: "What the hell is going on? Your ... program says it cannot find some library. I've searched all my harddrive and have not found libfetch.so.2...". And, please note, he/she didn't know anything about symlinks, he/she is just enduser. -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
