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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries and Patches
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Date: 2 Oct 90 13:31:28 GMT
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    I'd like to see the Sun shared library support go into sun.cf,

I don't know what this means.

    and i'd
    like to see the minor revision number get bumped when a library changes

The Sun shared library mechanism seems magic enough and fragile enough,
especially in the area of numbers, that we hesitate to make any changes
here.  Perhaps you'd like to make such changes locally and try them for
a few months (gratuitously installing new versions from time to time)
to see if it really works?

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

I would hope we don't make incompatible changes like that.