On Út, 2016-06-28 at 22:10 +0000, Thomas Waldmann via RT wrote: > On 06/28/2016 11:18 PM, Kurt Roeckx via RT wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 08:50:43PM +0000, Thomas Waldmann via RT > > wrote: > > > > > > I didn't ask where to get the missing code from, I asked whether > > > you > > > maybe want to make life simpler for people by adding this to > > > 1.0.x > > > rather than having a thousand software developers copy and > > > pasting it > > > into their projects. > > I think this will not actually make life easier. People using a > > 1.0.x version are not always using the latest 1.0.x version. > Aren't they? > > Don't they use 1.0.xLATEST rather soon, due to security fixes? > > And in case some dist maintainer chooses to rather backport, couldn't > they also backport the added function if it is documented as "openssl > 1.1.x migration support" or so? > > We aren't talking about incompatible changes, just adding 2 trivial > functions that were not there yet (but should have been there, when > looking at the rest of the API).
You might get such kind of backport to something that still evolves such as (RHEL/CentOS 7) however you would not get it in older releases (RHEL/CentOS 5 and most probably RHEL/CentOS 6 either). So you will still be facing the issue that there are environments where someone wants to build your code and these functions are not present. -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb (You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.) -- Ticket here: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4589 Please log in as guest with password guest if prompted -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev