On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:04:53 -0700 Wes wrote: WH> TA> Great they do understand -- because I'm not sure I do (based on your WH> TA> description above). What's their "special case" and what exactly do they WH> TA> expect us to do? WH> WH> There special case was also described: they're not going to use any new WH> interfaces at all and want the library version to not change just WH> because some obtuse part of the library has a structure with a new size WH> that they're not using.
I seriously doubt that they actually evaluate all the code using the library to actually determine that. They could actaully get away with not caring about structure size if they _always_ obtained and released the structures via API calls (that we don't actually have for many/most structures). Once things are declared on the stack, all bets are off. Which is why I still think 5.4.1 should bump current and not just age. WH> Fundamentally, our messing with a library version WH> number requires third party tool providers of a operating system to WH> redistribute new software to all their existing customers. Which is their problem. If they don't like it, they could complain to the operating system vendor about not providing compat libraries. Or they could bypass the whole issue and link statically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
