On 2008-08-22T20:00:37, Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if it can now be successfully build against latest heartbeat-dev,
> or whatever the correct header dependency package would be,
> and the resulting binary will still work with all the various
> (potentially older) heartbeat versions out there,
> we shall be happy to relieve you from that burden
> and carry around our bugs ourselves again.
Older versions of course not always, just like drbd doesn't load on all
kernel versions; this needs to be protected against with the proper
dependencies & sonames. But otherwise, yes.
> should it be possible to build one dopd binary against
> latest distributed heartbeat header packages,
> and have it work on different versions of heartbeat?
As long as the soname doesn't change, yes.
> btw,
> there are rumors about a dopd
> for the openais comm layer ;)
I still think that the dopd is sort-of the wrong approach, btw. This
should probably integrate somehow with the drbd RA, using the
notifications made available to it.
Regards,
Lars
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