Re: Bug#503833: Unparseable PKCS cert

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-11-08 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I just realized: doesn't Nikos' patch actually do two separate things?

>> 1) Add the BER stuff needed to support the PKCS#12 blob

>> 2) Optimize tree generation by using the small_value field.

>> It is the 2) that causes the ABI break, but 1) that is needed to solve
>> to the regression.
[...]
> I don't think this is a question that we would like to set to
> ourselves. It leads to another questions on which optimization would
> be good enough or which addition is good enough to justify the break.

> The real question would be whether we want the internal structures
> published on the public API. I don't think we want this. It leads to
> us being handicap (like we are now) to apply any optimization/addition
> to the internal works of the library. Thus for me it is a good thing
> to move them away as soon as we can to allow further development on
> libtasn1.
[...]

Hello,

Simon had already done this in git, the latest daily snapshots have
moved the struct definition to an internal header. 
cu andreas
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