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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!world!ksr!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-current shared libs. Message-ID: <35247@ksr.com> Date: 15 Nov 93 16:24:21 EST References: <1993Nov12.151537.15394@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@ksr.com Lines: 17 jiwhan@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Ji Whan Kim) writes: >I understand that NetBSD-current now uses shared libraries. How stable >are these and is it worth getting them now or waiting til they >appear in a distribution? There's that word "stable" again. The rate of change stabilized enough this past weekend (after about two weeks of development visible on the current-users mailing list) that I got around to installing them on my system, where they work fine for me. If you haven't previously been in the mood to track the fixes available routinely in the netbsd-current sources, I don't see any particular reason to start now, and would recommend waiting for a release distribution. If you have been tracking netbsd-current, I didn't hear of anyone complaining to current-users that their system became unbootable, even just after shared libraries hit the ftp-able tree (unbuildable, yes) (though perhaps they still can't boot their systems to send mail ;-), so it seems to already meet the "stays running" version of "stability".