Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:50 +0200
on 13/01/2012 12:19 Doug Barton said the following:
> On 01/13/2012 02:06, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>> Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no
>> kernel incompatible changes were introduced?
> 
> Because one of the reasons we have major branches is so that we can
> change the various API/KPI/etc. in the newer branch.

Are you saying that every major branch _has_ to introduce incompatibilities into
a at least one system call?
Otherwise, you are answering a question different from what Volodymyr asked :)

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Andriy Gapon
Received on Fri Jan 13 2012 - 09:52:56 UTC

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