Hi Wes, > I actually suspect more people fall into that boat than people that will > make use of the new structure directly in their application. I just > think most people don't mind recompiling as much as third party > commercial products running on an OS which just distributed a new > version of net-snmp. Fundamentally, our messing with a library version > number requires third party tool providers of a operating system to > redistribute new software to all their existing customers.
Increasing the version numbers is required on Debian due to the debian policy. Not increasing the version would cause random applications (the ones using the changed API) to either misbehave or even crash on an net-snmp upgrade. Multiple snmp libraries can even be installed in parallel if required. Cheers, Jochen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
