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On 16 Aug 1998, david parsons wrote:
> >Duh. 2 & 3 has been standard since the late 1.x series; it was just
> >that support for the now-ancient ones on major 4 was removed in
> >2.1.115.
> >
> >Get with the program!
>
> I'm a commercial applications developer. For me, `the program'
> is `please don't delete the published interfaces unless you
> have to.' Converting time_t to 64 bit is a `have to'; pulling
> a less than decade-old[1] interface is not.
>
> [1: a human generation is a good minimum life for a published
> interface.]
Uh. Change in major and minor numbers is _not_ an API change. It is just
the special devices that have to be upgraded: a system administrator work,
a work of just few seconds without even reboot.
After that _all_ the applications return working as expected.
Here the _only_ real problem is that the thing was not publicized (but I
strongly _don't_ want to criticize anyone) and I was bitten by the
problem with my good old system as other ppl was.
Can I suggest to add a hint into the Changes file about this subject ?
Enclosed a tentative patch to Changes file: CC'ed to the Changes mantainer
too.
Ciao,
Riccardo.
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