On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 20:16 -0500, Robert Story wrote: > Obviously introducing a dependency on an external variable, and breaking > backwards compatibility, is not a good thing. However, if we were going to do > it, 5.3 would be the right time. > > The other options would be moving the variable into the library. Then any > application that installed a signal handler and set the flag would be able to > exit these loops. > > Thoughts?
My immediate reaction is that it's perhaps a bit late to start making such changes now. We're currently in pre-release mode for 5.3, so should be concentrating on fixing (manageable) bugs, rather than making significant changes. Now I know that I've a much more conservative attitude towards this than everyone else, so I fully expect to be shot down in flames yet again. But I don't believe we should be contemplating such structural changes at this point - maybe two or three weeks ago, but not now. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
