Jeff Cai writes: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 10:40 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > Are there incompatible changes being made? If so, then what is the > > impact of those changes? What depends on them and how will they > > coordinate? > > To adapt to changes in the TLS extension specifications for SRP, the > GnuTLS API had to be modified. This means breaking the > API and ABI backwards compatibility. > > Generally, most applications does not need to be modified. Just > re-compile them against the latest GnuTLS release, and it should work > fine.
"Just re-compile" means that packaged software that depends on this library will break. Is a re-compile necessary? (If so, then it sounds like someone on that GNU project doesn't quite get how to build reliable libraries ...) So how do we handle this? What existing packaged software uses this library? Do we not care whether it breaks, or are we doing something to make sure it is all updated at the same time this library is updated? > > Is anyone looking at this problem? Or will Open Solaris (despite the > > best efforts of the Indiana team and the ARC "gang of four") just > > drift away from Linux as more things become GPLv3? > > > Sun's legal people tole me that "???Sun prefers not to use GPL v3, Sun > prefers to > use GPL v2". Once legal people allow us to ship libraries or applications in > GPL v3, > we will enable the "extra" libraries. Just to clarify: in this case, "prefer" means that we ship something under the "GnuTLS" name on Solaris that is different from the same-named thing on Linux and lacks the capabilities available there. Correct? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
