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From: jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries and Patches
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Date: 2 Oct 90 13:04:19 GMT
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	A little examination reveals some changes in various data
	structures reveals that things like "XtAppStruct" have
	changed.

If this is true, the Sun shared libraries would fail too.  I just
applied fixes 15-17 and rebuilt libXt, and tried to run my older
applications pointed at the new shared libraries and didn't get a core
dump, so perhaps the changes are only internal.  You need to (in the
Sun model) bump the major revision number when you change the interface
to the shared libraries.  This also requires a re-link step.

Enhancement request:

I'd like to see the Sun shared library support go into sun.cf, and i'd
like to see the minor revision number get bumped when a library changes
so that when I "make install" I don't clobber the (presently in-use)
library that's already there, and I can remove the old version, say, a
week later after everyone has begun using the new version.

Further, I hope that if you change the interfaces to these libraries
that you would bump the major revision number ...

Thanks.

/jordan