Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:20:51 -0800, Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as > > required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we > > go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6 > > if RELENG_4 bumps again). > > Shared library version numbers going backwards is *evil*. Not quite > as evil as it used to be under a.out, but still evil. Please don't go > there. There is no concept of "forward" or "backward" as far as the toolchain and runtime support goes. There is only "filename exists" or "file not found". Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
