11 Dec
2001
11 Dec
'01
01:17
* Anders Johansson (andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net) [011210 13:57]:
On Monday 10 December 2001 21.00, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
Thorstan Kukuk can give a much better answer than I can.
Obviously if a version 2 is backwards compatible all one has to do is to symlink .1 to .2. no need to mix .so into it at all. Sorry
I don't know if that's always the case though. E.g., the Berkeley DB in libc isn't backwards compatible in some cases I think. But with something like GL it's probably a safe assumption. -- -ckm