Re: [RFC] Renaming libnet-1.1.1 to libnet2-1.1.1

James Ralston wrote:
> On 2003-03-05 at 18:01:43-0800 Aaron Turner <aturner@pobox.com> wrote:
>

>>So basically you want to break virtually every libnet based
>>application?  That just sounds like a *really* bad idea to me.

I don't see how renaming libnet1.1 to libnet2 breaks any future compatibility. Apps that use libnet2 will always use libnet2; it will never be renamed. Thus no breakage.

> Red Hat, Debian, and most other major distros have been through this

That's why they use libdb-4.0 for the name of the newest berkeley db interface, and libdb3 for the name of the previous one. If they had followed your logic, every time they introduced a new berkeley db interface, they would have renamed the old one libdb-old, and broken every app that used it. (I think they did this for a while, but learned not to.)

Really, James. You seem to like breaking apps. Not very neighborly of you :-) - Dan

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Dan Kegel
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