On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Scott Long wrote: > > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > > Sure, symbol versioning would be great to have, but I still don't > > > know why library versions are bumped when they don't need to be. > > > It's like we've thrown up our hands and said "Something has changed > > > in one or more of the libraries, and we don't know how this affects > > > other libraries, so we're going to bump them all." Speaking for > > > the thread libraries, they were not users of any of the changed > > > ABIs -- there was no reason to bump them. > > > > > > > We have a very strong history of making changes in our base libraries > > that have very unintended consequences. > > And as far as I can recall, we have ironed them all out in -current > before any release. > > > Try running the Java binaries > > for 4.x, the only ones that we are certified to distribute, on 5.x or > > 6.x. > > Why? Do they not work with the compat libraries installed? No, they're completely useless thesedays except on 4.x. Kris
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