[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.2 available for testing

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:26:38AM -0700, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 4:12 AM, Lasse Collin wrote:

> > Backwards compatiblity with old binaries is the reason why 32-bit
> > GNU/Linux supports both 32-bit and 64-bit off_t.

> They should have just changed off_t and made everyone recompile.   
> What a horrible mess.

Breaking the ABI of core components like libc is strongly frowned upon
since users tend not to be very unhappy about being forced to rebuild
their applications and vendors don't like having to maintain multiple
versions of things if they can avoid it.

-- 
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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