On 09:55 Mon 02 Jun , John Russo wrote: > In OFED 1.3rc2 we noticed that libosmcomp's version had changed from 1 > to 2. > > Unfortunately this has caused forward compatibility problems for > existing applications which were compiled against OFED 1.2.5.1. It > would be preferred if when such upgrades occur, both the .1 and .2 > version of the library are provided such that existing applications do > not need to be recompiled nor reinstalled.
What is the problem to recompile? Anyway you can keep old version if you like. > Alternatively limiting the > necessity for such library version changes (never break old interfaces) > would be preferred. It is hard to promise for 100%. libosmcomp is not a great candidate for stable API (it is even not documented). I'm sure that changes were done for a reason and obviously it was published/discussed on the list. Sasha _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg