On Jun 7, 2010, at 13:18 , Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > I see a lot of efforts in SVN, merging OpenSC trunk into the branch > named releases/0.11.14. It is not merging trunk, it is picking critical and isolated bugs that have been fixed in trunk into the 0.11 tree, so that it could be a drop-in replacement where needed. 0.12 changes (removes) API, removes the possibility to link against libopensc and does many other things differently, so it can't be simply used instead of OpenSC 0.11.X on some distros.
The idea is to keep the cards that have been working with 0.11 to keep working with 0.11, without any required changes on the card. > I don't know how 0.11.14 and 0.12.0 will co-exist in Debian SID or any > other GNU/Linux distribution. If they do, bravo! After having to explain > how to remove OpenCT, now I will have to explain Gooze users which > OpenSC version to install. The same with OpenSSL - Debian sid still uses OpenSSL 0.9.8 even though 1.0.0a is available. It is a choice done by distro maintainers. Some distributions live more on the "cutting edge" and have been using OpenSSL 1.0 since beta (which also had problems) -- Martin Paljak http://martin.paljak.pri.ee +3725156495 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
