On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:32:07AM +0200, Urban Boquist wrote:

 > I mean, if there turns out to exist no concrete examples of these
 > binary-only third party libraries this discussion is merely
 > hypothetical, and we could just go ahead and do the bump. It wouldn't
 > affect anyone.

Even if non-binary-only, it's really bad form to suddenly break
previously-working programs ... and this WILL happen because
it is an impossible task to coordinate the major number bump
with every vendor, binary-only or not.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>