thoughts/issues making MIT krb code fit for drop-in to Solaris

[Will Fiveash]

(please reply so that boath krbdev at mit.edu and
kerberos-discuss at opensolaris.org are included)

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:14:56PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 17:01 -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:48:41PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 19:04 -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Thoughts as to whether this goal is achievable and on an approach if
> > > > so?
> > > 
> > > Would this plan affect other platforms too?
> > > If so, how?
> > 
> > If there is any impact to binaries it would something that the
> > Consortium would agree is beneficial to all supported platforms.  For
> > example, if the Consortium agrees that providing I18N support can be
> > done reasonably for all platforms then this change would become
> > universal to the code otherwise the change would be restricted to
> > Solaris platforms.
> 
> Ok, but it seem that some of the feature may break compatibility.
> Is there analysis on what may break ?

What do you mean by "compatibility"?

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Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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