In message: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708261240070.23191_at_sea.ntplx.net> Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org> writes: : On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Yar Tikhiy wrote: : > : > But, anyway, there are at least three people in the project who : > misundertood the intended role of symbol versioning. Besides yours : > truly, a humble developer, there are a core team member and a release : > engineer among them. This may be a sign that some decisions regarding : > symbol versioning, which is a rather central feature for developers : > and code contributors, haven't had enough exposure. Perhaps we've : > just missed some important discussions on the lists, but symbol : > versioning is a long-term feature and as such it deserves a document : > describing in detail how to use it in our project. : : I've think I've stated in replies to commit mail that symbol versioning : isn't meant as a crutch to aid -current developers, but that is neither : written down or documented and was probably over a year ago. You never answered my point: The release engineer gets to decide when the ABI is frozen. Maybe it already is and this use isn't a crutch. WarnerReceived on Sun Aug 26 2007 - 15:31:44 UTC
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