ABI breakage in 2.10.4 --> 2.11.6?

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sat Feb 19 10:14:30 CET 2011


On 02/18/2011 06:10 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2011-02-17 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:
>> On 02/17/2011 08:00 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think the the ABI in 2.11.6 was changed relative to 2.10.
>>> Considering the recent discussion on list I guess this was not done
>>> intentionally.
> 
>> That part of the API concerns gnutls internals thus it is always
>> under revision.
> [...]
> Stupid question: If it is about internals why is it part of the
> published API/ABI?

That's a nice question. This API is mostly interesting to people
who are porting gnutls to another crypto library. We might
exported via another header in gnutls-3.0.0.

regards,
Nikos




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