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Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:41:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Timo Schulz <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is there no possibility to rename the APIs that changed in 0.6 and
>> provide a backwards compatibility glue under the old function name?
>
> This is not a trivial task and I don't think it can be done easily.
> And I'm not sure if there is a clean way to provide 100% backward
> compatibility.
>
>
>> This isn't a critical problem, but it is always nicer if newer
>> versions retains source-code backwards compatibility (i.e., 0.6
>> opencdk.h + 0.6 libopencdk.so against 0.5 application) even when the
>
> I agree on that. But the opencdk API needed urgently a cleanup and I
> thought the sooner the better so applications, especially GnuTLS, can
> be migrated as soon as possible.
Sure. I just wanted to confirm that you/we have thought about this
problem.
I think the conclusion is that opencdk 0.6 will have to conflict
(using distro package speak) with the opencdk 0.5 package.
/Simon
- [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Timo Schulz, 2007/04/20
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Simon Josefsson, 2007/04/20
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Timo Schulz, 2007/04/20
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Simon Josefsson, 2007/04/22
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Timo Schulz, 2007/04/22
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Simon Josefsson, 2007/04/22
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Timo Schulz, 2007/04/22
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: [gnutls-dev] autoconf version handling, Timo Schulz, 2007/04/22