On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 04:29:29AM +0000, Chaskiel Grundman wrote: > >> The vsu_ClientInit() signature change was a side-effect of the > >> refactoring of ugen_ClientInit(). No one remembered the possible out of > >> tree usage of vsu_ClientInit(). vsu_ClientInit() is not an exported > >> function. As such its status as public is murky at best. > > > >Indeed, I use the export symbol lists for the public shared libraries to > >determine what standard of review to apply to API changes, and non-exported > >symbols mostly get a free-for-all for API changes. > > If that's how the world works, then commit to it, and don't publish the > related archive libraries or headers anymore. I guess this is already in > progress, as the prototypes for UV_* functions used by balance and backup > clients (in volser_prototypes.h and volser_internal.h) are not part of > distributions.
It's definitely something to think about for 2.0, yes. > The "public" shared libraries started life as "what the threaded fileserver > and windows processes running in the service manager need from > rx/rxkad/des/comerr" and "what the threaded fileserver needed from afsconf" + > "what libadmin needed from the kaserver client". Only people who really cared > about getting rid of LWP would have tried to migrate to them from the old > archive libraries. Fair points all. Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
