LSARC/2007/299 Berkeley_Database_4.5.20 - fast track restarted

[Alan Coopersmith]

Karen Langford wrote:
> Also note our customer's have requested we deliver both versions

The entire reason ARC exists is so we can avoid needless duplication
like this.    Could you imagine how broken our systems would be if
we shipped all the different versions of every library some application
certified against?   We'd have hundreds of versions of libc alone.

This is why we ask projects to enumerate the interfaces they export and
the promises they make about stability, and the interfaces they import,
so we can know that if you stick to those interfaces you can survive if
the libraries upgrade new versions that don't break those promises.

How many versions of libdb are you going to ship at once in the future?
Every version some other project used once?

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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