On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:48:25 -0700 Wes wrote: WH> RS> Sooooo.... we even want our bugs to be backwards compatible?? Don't WH> RS> think that I agree with that... WH> WH> If we believe that people are using a function for decoding a ASN range WH> that doesn't check the type of the variable (IE, int vs counter) and we WH> suddenly change the function to check the type and it may break existing WH> code then, um, yes? It's one of those fine lines between "feature" and WH> "bug" ;-)
Then how about deprecating it for a release or two, including adding a warning (using NETSNMP_LOGONCE), before fixing/removing in favor of the new version? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
