In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:00:21 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
richard> deengert> One of the problems is that different sub releases of richard> deengert> OpenSSL use the same library names 0.9.7 where as a new richard> deengert> release which adds functionality such as the AES-265-... richard> deengert> should increment the library version. richard> richard> There are differing opinions about that, but essentially, I agree. I'm gonna change my mind a bit. I think it should be OK for updates of the same library to include new functions. The trouble, at least on Linux, is that (as far as I know) it doesn't really look at the major and minor version number of the shared library, it goes for one specific name (as given with soname?). Of course, this leads to broken behavior, as an update of the library really should get a new (higher) minor version. On the other hand, we mishandle the possibility of differing minor version number as well... Ah well... Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
