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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
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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".