I took it upon myself to move debian-1.0 to ALPHA-TEST/debian-1.0 and
make the "development" symbolic link point at that. I'm sorry about
what this will do to the mirror sites, and I'm sorry to mess with the
FTP arrangement, which isn't my job.
Thanks
>
> : this is great for backwards binary compatability, something Linux
> : has excelled at.
>
> With all due respect, Linux has been worse about this than many other
> platforms, especially where C++ programs are concerned. FreeBSD, for
> example, has been more stable over the past couple of y
: this is great for backwards binary compatability, something Linux
: has excelled at.
With all due respect, Linux has been worse about this than many other
platforms, especially where C++ programs are concerned. FreeBSD, for
example, has been more stable over the past couple of years. SunOS
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>some significant complexity for developers of libraries. I'm not sure
>how elf handles this -- possibly the program specifies which version
>of the library it's looking for and there's an instancing scheme to
>select one of several releases of a function for cases where there's
>been an interface
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: FTP arrangement"):
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:03 BST
>From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I'm confused. I thought we had an incrementally upgradeable system ?
>What is the purpose of the extra directory ?
>
I would also like to have the capability to switch between multiple versions
of the same library. That would simplify a few multi-platform-GUI sorts
of tasks. Figuring out how to do that using ELF has got to be simpler
than figuring out how to make a shared ELF/a.out library.
It might be _possible
Ian Murdock:
No, I'm not saying this at all. I'm saying that fairly soon our
primary emphasis (from a development point of view) will be the ELF
distribution. We'll still update the a.out distribution, of
course, but it'll become less and less of a priority from a
development point
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