Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/20/2006 00:22:48
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:00:55AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>   =20
>    > how did you know that no one uses the api?
>    > once you exported the api, it can be used by someone.
>   =20
>    but this api was not in any netbsd release, hence, should be
>    considered -- like anything else in -current -- "unstable".
>=20
>=20
> that's just not how netbsd works.  we don't go breaking
> shlibs in -current just because we can.  we go to great
> pains to avoid this, even if just for -current users.

Besides, if it's likely to be unused, then there's definitely no harm
in doing the major bump.  Everybody wins.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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