On Wed, Jun 29, 2005, Dan Nuffer wrote: > Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > >This means that changing this in the short term is likely to cause > >widespread > >application breakage which wouldn't be too popular :-( > > > > Speaking as an application developer, I would willingly go through a > one-time source code upgrade to achieve binary compatiblity. That is > more appealing to me than having to repeatedly deal with binary > compatiblity issues, because it's less work in the long run. >
Also speaking as an application developer so would I. However there are a hell of a lot of applications out there that depend on the existing APIs not changing (too) much. Can you give details of some of the binary compatibility issues you've come across? Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
