On 24/10/14 10:12, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 10/21/2014 05:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:OpenBSD’s libc.so major number is 50 or something like that right now, because they – correctly – increment it on every incompatible change.The correct thing to do is to not do incompatible change.
A wonderful aphorism. Now, what do you do when the only sane way to resolve a critical security vulnerability, or implement a feature demanded-with-good-reason by 95% of your users, is to make an incompatible change?