On 03/22/18 10:37, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>:
This patch changes a data structure in a public header file and hence breaks
the ABI. This is something we could do for Net-SNMP 5.8 since there has not
yet been any 5.8 release but it's something we can't do for older Net-SNMP
versions.
I withdraw the suggestion.
Procedurally, do you have an official queue of patches deferred to the next
major release, or a repository branch for them? Putting the patch there
would be a reasonable way to close 2833.
Is changing the size of variable.magic the best solution for bug #2833?
I think that variable.magic is only needed if the old MIB registration
API is used (register_mib() etc.). That API was deprecated more than ten
years ago. I think that we should tell users to move away from that API
rather than helping them with fixing the shortcomings of that API. From
include/net-snmp/net-snmp-config.h.in:
/* ********* NETSNMP_MARK_BEGIN_LEGACY_DEFINITIONS *********/
/*
* existing definitions prior to Net-SNMP 5.4
*
* do not add anything new here
*
*/
#ifndef NETSNMP_NO_LEGACY_DEFINITIONS
[ ... ]
#endif
An example of how to use the new API is available at
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:mib2c_scalar.
Bart.
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