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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-10-27 23:19:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-10-27 23:19:17 +0100 |
| commit | 99b0cf260e603de1b3b6b99a98f6b136ee09098e (patch) | |
| tree | 24ab79d632e6f908e958e48444628e2de817c402 /open_issues | |
| parent | 6eaff12d6ee63315be57352ad4bf5fd0ab45069f (diff) | |
open_issues/versioning: New.
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| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/glibc.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/versioning.mdwn (renamed from open_issues/glibc/0.4.mdwn) | 41 |
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/glibc.mdwn b/open_issues/glibc.mdwn index 292c6256..23339bac 100644 --- a/open_issues/glibc.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/glibc.mdwn @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Here's what's to be done for maintaining glibc. # [[General information|/glibc]] +## [[Versioning]] + # [[Sources|source_repositories/glibc]] diff --git a/open_issues/glibc/0.4.mdwn b/open_issues/versioning.mdwn index f864469d..69a6cb20 100644 --- a/open_issues/glibc/0.4.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/versioning.mdwn @@ -8,12 +8,47 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_libpthread]] +Things to consider regarding *versioning*. + +The provider and user of any interface need to agree about how to interpret the +data being exchanged. Internal-only interfaces can be changed easily, because +you can change the provider and user at the same time. Interfaces that are +exposed externally require more attention, for obvious reasons. To *change* +interfaces means to either remove, or add, or modify an existing interface. +Modify basically means to remove and then re-add a variant, re-using the former +name/identifier. + + +# [[RPC]]s + +## [[microkernel/mach/message/msgh_id]] + + +# Shared Libraries + + * [[!wikipedia soname]] + * ELF symbol versioning + * [[!wikipedia "GNU Libtool"]] -Things to consider doing when bumping the glibc SONAME. +## Hurd -# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-12-14 +Transition to "normal" ELF symbol versioning/libtool? + +For all libraries, the SONAME is currently set to *0.3*. [[!message-id +desc="Not changed" "87ob7cxbu6.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net"]] when doing the +[[Hurd 0.5 release|news/2013-09-27]]. + + +## glibc + +Bump the glibc SONAME to some point, or can do everything with symbol +versioning? + + +### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-12-14 + +[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_libpthread]] In context of [[packaging_libpthread]]/[[libpthread]]. |