On 10/21/2014 05:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote:
So, dear fellow DDs, I'm asking you: each time you see that an upstream
author is breaking an ABI on a package you maintain, write an email to
him/her, and explain how much this is bad and shouldn't
Gregory Smith dixit:
They say you're a hard nose, skeptical, untrusting, old unix admin and
programmer from the old days and you do not take one ounce of
My old days were on DOS¹. I am a relative newcomer to the Unix world,
starting about 1999. But I grew up with the “old values”, including
On 10/21/2014 01:34 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
I mean, when I read that infamous guy, Poettering, talking about things
like this:
http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html
Actually, while the rest of your post isn't helpful (or even an
annoyance), I'm happy
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote:
So, dear fellow DDs, I'm asking you: each time you see that an upstream
author is breaking an ABI on a package you maintain, write an email to
him/her, and explain how much this is bad and shouldn't happen. If the
Unix community starts to realize how
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:12:20 +0200
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote:
So, dear fellow DDs, I'm asking you: each time you see that an
upstream author is breaking an ABI on a package you maintain, write
an email to him/her, and explain how much this is bad and shouldn't
happen. If the
Konstantin Khomoutov dixit:
Sometimes we have to run software which is neither Open Source nor Free
on our systems which are (luckily) Open Source and Free.
Things like f-prot are shipped statically linked, when in their
binary form for OpenBSD. And binary compatibility only goes so
far either
Hi,
Thorsten Glaser:
OpenBSD’s libc.so major number is 50 or something like that right now,
because they – correctly – increment it on every incompatible change.
Glibc has versioned symbols instead …
This is not a problem because, you know, we have Open Source, so we
can always just
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