current breaks ABI
Nicolas Williams
Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Wed May 19 17:27:00 EDT 2004
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:51:48PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Ken> On May 19, 2004, at 16:13, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >> OK, any idea what's breaking?
>
> Ken> Not yet.
>
> Ken> I do recall thinking that we might need to revise the library
> Ken> version numbers, but it was a while ago and I don't remember
> Ken> if there was more to it than changing library dependencies
> Ken> and dropping a bunch of stuff we hope nobody is using from
> Ken> the export lists.
>
> Politically it will be challenging to justify an ABI bump for this
> release. I would recommend working under the assumption that we will
> need to avoid it, but if we prove to ourselves that avoiding an ABI
> bump is technically impossible then that's what we will have to do.
If you decide to break the ABI you might as well go for the
krb5_keyblock / derived key cache stuff we've discussed ad naseum.
Nico
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