Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n...@redhat.com> writes:

> If you mean removing them from the public headers and placing them in
> one (or multiple) internal ones,  it makes sense to me.

Sounds reasonable. Then it's harder to use them without realizing
they're internal and not compatible over version changes (even though we
ought to document the conventions).

>> What do you think? Are there any of the current _nettle_* symbols
>> that should be in the advertised API (and hence renamed)?
>
> I do not use any of them in gnutls, but searching at the debian code, I
> see: _nettle_md5_compress (sogo), _nettle_sha1_compress
> (filezilla/putty)

We could promote those to advertised ABI, then. I.e., linker symbols
nettle_*_compress after the ABI change, while we could keep
_nettle_*_compress as aliases in the header file, not not also break the
API.

Regards,
/Niels

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