Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/05/2001 09:49:04
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:43:29AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>    
>    Modified Files:
>    	basesrc/lib/libform: shlib_version
>    
>    Log Message:
>    Undo previous major bump - the ABI wasn't affected by the corresponding
>    code change.
> 
> 
> is this good form?  the major bump doesn't matter at the moment to anyone,
> except now there might be people with the upped major number installed on
> there system and they'll always be screwed until the major number is once
> again raised.  not too much of a window, but does that matter?

i personally don't think it was that big a window, and it's only going
to affect people using cvs (developers) or anoncvs compiling against
libform (which I don't think any in-tree program is using anyway).

ie., i don't see this as a problem in this particular case.