On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:01:49PM +0000, Chris wrote: > 4 - compatiblity, I remember using 5.2.1 and pretty much all software > worked well in that and then they did the bind defaulting to base and > libs version jump, why wasnt this done in 5.0 so 3rd party apps could > adjust, now we have a situation where most stuff that worked in 4.x > worked well in 5.1 and 5.2.1 but then broke in 5.3 so effectively 5.3 > was liek a new major version over 5.2.1.
5.2.1 was clearly marked as a "developer preview" release and you were warned not to rely on it for production use. As a snapshot of FreeBSD-CURRENT, binary compatibility is not guaranteed and often needs to be broken in the course of development. Kris
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