>>>>> "TA" == Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

TA> The strange thing is that whenever we discuss library versions and ask
TA> for comments, vendors rarely show up with their feedback/complaints.

Please don't require users to be -coders members.  Yes, it would be nice
if everyone would participate in every way.  But our job should be to
make things work as best as it can so people that don't have extra time
can still use the software.  Yes, I agree that vendors should
participate if they can.  But I suspect if it was a requirement, many
would stop shipping it instead.  SNMP is a pretty car only on the
outside till you open up the hood.

WH> Sigh.  Really, I hate to say it, we should be using different libtool
WH> versions per library.
>> 
>> Indeed we should.

TA> I'm tempted to agree, but would we really do vendors a favour? E.g.
TA> Debian ships libnetsnmp*.so.X in a package called libsnmpX (and
TA> libnetsnmp*.so.Y in a package called libsnmpY). I'm not sure how they'd
TA> organize things if we switched to per-library versioning.

They could still do that.  Are you saying they ship libnetsnmpagent.X
inside libnetsnmpX?

We certainly need to take into account how people package things up, but
fundamentally we have to make sound architecture decisions that may
conflict with packaging ideals.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.

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