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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: WP for Linux, BSD? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 13:29:38 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <hmyNYgS.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <1994Mar9.082547.1022@news.csuohio.edu> <2llhqt$15a@explorer.clark.net> <hastyCMFH9r.BvD@netcom.com> <1994Mar11.204055.24136@pegasus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-To: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com> Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com> writes: >Can a vendor expect today's binaries to remain compatible with future >releases of these OSes? At least in FreeBSD, we are maintaining compatibility with previous versions, and I think that NetBSD is also maintaining compatibility. Even IF we go to ELF or COFF as an alternate format, a.out *MAGIC is here to stay. Of course sometimes there can be problems with shared libs, etc, and in that case there is probably a better chance with the FreeBSD/NetBSD scheme of future compatibility because of the run-time linking. I would however strongly suggest that such a software vendor not depend on shared libs for their product, unless the situation stablizes (which it probably will sometime in the future.) (JUST MY OPINION) John dyson@implode.root.com