On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jason Turner wrote:
> Newbie question:
>
> When upgrading (currently doing 1.1.1 to 1.2.1), do I have
> to rebuild all packages as well? For example, I use RODBC
> and netCDF a lot.
Usually you don't, this time you probably do. The introduction of the new
memory management scheme in 1.2 broke binary (and even source)
compatibility for a number of packages. It was worth it, though.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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