[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I'd like to make a question to the developers about the new ASN.1 code.
> For some projects in which we are involved, we added new structures using
> the old code.
> Now I looked briefly at the new code in the snapshots and I realized
> that many things are changing (with big improvements IMHO reading README.ASN1).
> Moreover quoting from a message of Richard Levitte: "backward-compatibility
> is low priority before version 1.0". So my question is: starting from
> OpenSSL 0.9.7 will we have only the new ASN.1 code and the old code
> will disappear ? Because in this case I think that we need to
> understand and use the new code (if it's in place) ASAP
>
The old code should still be usable in 0.9.7 and maybe several versions
afterwards, it will however vanish someday...
New applications for OpenSSL 0.9.7 onwards should only use the new ASN1
code and existing applications using the old version should convert to
the new form: hopefully it shouldn't be too hard even with the current
lack of documentation.
Steve.
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