On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:54:14PM +0100, Dave Shield wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 18:31, Matthew Boehm wrote:
> 
> > Renaming asterisk's function is out of the question, as is renaming
> > snmpd's. How does one overcome this?
> 
> I've just committed a patch to the main development tree,
> that renames the offending routine in the Net-SNMP source,
> while leaving an (optional) compatability wrapper.
>   So anyone with existing code should be unaffected, while
> this particular clash could be avoided by using the new
> "netsnmp_unload_module" call, and defining a suitable
> NETSNMP_CLEAN_NAMESPACE preprocessor directive.

Would similar patches to remove other just as ugly warts be considered?
My first choice to kill would then be the PACKAGE_* macros.

What is the transition plan for deprecation of the old calls?
This is actually a general question - how old code should be supported?

/MF


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