Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys
To: Mindaugas R. <mindaur@gmail.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/31/2007 12:45:21
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:13:12PM +0300, Mindaugas R. wrote:
> Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for doing this. You probably need to bump the major version of
> > librt and send a note to current-users, since the ABI has changed.
> There was such intention, but bumping without ABI compatibility is not very
> reasonable, is it? Also, after discussing this with <uwe> I do not think it is
> worth doing this in -current.
> Hence?..
The trick is to break compatibility completely by changing the name of
at least one important function - then stuff doesn't link....
David
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