Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org> (from Tue, 5 Dec 2006 > 18:22:41 -0500 (EST)): > >> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, John Baldwin wrote: > >>> Yes, but it doesn't hurt to just bump things now. I actually agree with >>> John's argument that it is beneficial to allow folks on current to >>> safely >>> use -stable apps by doing the library bump at first breakage. >>> Granted, after >>> 7.0 that policy will be obsolete, but it is still relevant for >>> 7-current. :) >>> Heck, why not just enable symbol versioning in current by default now >>> anyways? >> >> I'm waiting until after the GCC import because that should >> change the way dependencies are recorded in shared libraries, >> which really would force everyone to rebuild everything all >> over again. After the GCC import, we should bump all the >> libraries and enable symbol versioning, and hopefully you'll >> only have to rebuild things once. > > We have several upcomming stuff which ideally should be coordinated > here. The symbol versioning (and the corresponding bump of the version > of some libs) results in the need to rebuild everything, and the import > of X.org 7.x would result in the need to rebuild some ports (when an > user wants to update). I don't know if the import of gcc4 will need a > rebuild of everything too. While it might be a good idea to rebuild every X application after X.org 7.2 is merged, I don't think it's mandatory. > Could all involved people please speak with each other (or tell us you > did already) and try to coordinate a little bit? If everything is alright, X.org 7.2 should hit the tree by Christmas. Don't know if you need more information. Cheers. -- Florent Thoumie flz_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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