circular reference between libkrb5 and libk5crypto

Ken Raeburn raeburn at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 6 17:50:51 EST 2005


On Jan 6, 2005, at 10:27, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> You know, as long as we're on the subject ... how come libkrb5 and
> libk5crypto are separate?  Does anyone use the libk5crypto functions
> without using libkrb5?  (Since many of the libk5crypto functions take a
> krb5_context, I suspect not).  com_err, I can at least understand.  I
> know it's too late to change the ABI, so I guess I'm more curious than
> anything.

Next time we have an incompatible ABI change to make, I do think we 
should merge these two libraries.  But I don't think that'll be for a 
while yet.

Ken



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