On Tue, 22.11.05 12:34, Sjoerd Simons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > While working on avahi 0.6's debian package i noticed that > libavahi-client now check if the avahi-daemon is the same as it's > owns and refuses to work otherwise. > > This is gonna cause several problems for us. The biggest one is that > as soon as there is a new ABI change in the libraries, there is no > way anymore to have them both working. Which makes ABI updates a lot > more painfull for distributions. > > A real dbus ``ABI'' versioning for avahi could be nice, although it > will hopefully stay backward compatible. But forcing daemon and libs > to be the same version, while the dbus interface doesn't change just > causes unnecessary problems.
SVN r1027 contains some DBUS API versioning code. It is downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6. avahi-client 0.6.1 supports both avahi-daemon 0.6 and 0.6.1. Avahi 0.6.1 will be released shortly. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering; lennart [at] poettering [dot] de ICQ# 11060553; GPG 0x1A015CC4; http://0pointer.de/lennart/ _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
