On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:00:55AM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > > how did you know that no one uses the api? > > once you exported the api, it can be used by someone. > > but this api was not in any netbsd release, hence, should be > considered -- like anything else in -current -- "unstable". > > > that's just not how netbsd works. we don't go breaking > shlibs in -current just because we can. we go to great > pains to avoid this, even if just for -current users. Besides, if it's likely to be unused, then there's definitely no harm in doing the major bump. Everybody wins. -- Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost "When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea." KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.
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