-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello list,
I am working on implementing version checking for plugins to prevent the mixing of different library and plugin versions. This has accidently happened in the past and caused issues. Implementing this will reduce the work load in support slightly. The code I wrote thus far is in the "plugin-version-check" branch[1] in my strongSwan repo fork[2] It works by accessing the "version" attribute of the public interface of the plugin during load time and compares it with the "version" attribute of libstrongswan. That obviously requires ever plugin to have that attribute set. I stumbled upon the problem, that to define a plugin's version and make sure that it is included in the shared object statically, I'd need to touch that plugin's source files. So if I wanted to introduce version checking, I'd need to edit every single plugin and at the same time, it will cause that third party plugins won't build without changes. Is there another solution to this problem? Kind regards, Noel [1] https://github.com/Thermi/strongswan/tree/plugin-version-check [2] https://github.com/Thermi/strongswan/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEENSSTvrX3jmMTcq8t9U7kCwc5rWwFAlkeHaEACgkQ9U7kCwc5 rWygHRAAriSS/CWIPpqKUudN5eZ6rAG8MedQeHZO5M2VcKwOP6/E0aO/BF9qY03C gLPjTeCKCn17UdvPoHumEVv2wiZ9EgmBsYBQ+SYR9KB8fJNnKjtzESjZjxhiLES0 MKPmg+MMrvfdvPYKuuFxiG8xwgR5Mo470lX2Jljp4QUQXWDshA07w0qx2bwSWMjo ilrxZykww0jIlMifcgw6myN1pnzGeonM6P+3o4Mdpbk5c4NFPonU8vfWSoao/uVd KkTSPlKdldDmtQgHefp2BI7RYAX/1qIeVOGIss42wo4XjZx+AnuP3N3iLd6zLTib wHeTrf7un2vTAs0FdHRFuq8Z/KfgX4MtpWuMqP6AfVMuh2MMs8a+Q+zfcrJP3UsG NiRKpXv4E5c3tTwooPF0zD3mS/1wE5PXHO13hcYCxqvjV40OsN+NyrwM/drzsp+i J3QUOX8SZ3chZOy+5I4sb6nP/HFL05j5V739HTu/pCKQboyaahM0mgZc3sUfkHPY SHEh4QughQM9v3xtVIBccPspIdyDmO4uC6SWPJAuqKNPY/rLomF4gTw06qBUkymW +psIZwefD9jUgczkxSbBkiPKAaq1FGSAhyo95Hx4JvDubJ15QZO6MtcLy9ogkYN7 wo02JAcoF5gZHixu+Rr8P2zpI81D7Qkip45II+qfybuBoAjSvuE= =WPLP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
