cheung@titan.sw.mcc.com (Po Cheung) (10/27/90)
In rebuilding X libraries after applying all MIT fixes (up to fix-18) using Sun shared libraries on a Sun-3 running SunOS 4.0.3, the revision level of the shared libraries stays at 4.2. Should the minor revision level be raised from 2 to 3 instead? Thanks, Po Cheung cheung@mcc.com
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (10/31/90)
>In rebuilding X libraries after applying all MIT fixes (up to fix-18) >using Sun shared libraries on a Sun-3 running SunOS 4.0.3, the revision >level of the shared libraries stays at 4.2. Should the minor revision >level be raised from 2 to 3 instead? Only if the changes make it possible for a program linked against the patched version of the library to fail if run against the unpatched version - e.g., if a new routine is added to the library. The minor version number is to be bumped whenever an upward-compatible but not downward-compatible (or maybe it's the other way around) change is made, and the major version number is to be bumped when an incompatible change is made.