? 2008-05-28?? 09:17 -0400?James Carlson??? > Jeff Cai writes: > > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 10:40 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > > Are there incompatible changes being made? If so, then what is the > > > impact of those changes? What depends on them and how will they > > > coordinate? > > > > To adapt to changes in the TLS extension specifications for SRP, the > > GnuTLS API had to be modified. This means breaking the > > API and ABI backwards compatibility. > > > > Generally, most applications does not need to be modified. Just > > re-compile them against the latest GnuTLS release, and it should work > > fine. > > "Just re-compile" means that packaged software that depends on this > library will break. Is a re-compile necessary? (If so, then it > sounds like someone on that GNU project doesn't quite get how to build > reliable libraries ...) Yes. a re-compile is needed. > > So how do we handle this? What existing packaged software uses this > library? Do we not care whether it breaks, or are we doing something > to make sure it is all updated at the same time this library is > updated? Currently, ?Evolution, Pidgin, Ekiga and Vino depend on it. These four applications are all from JDS consolidation, therefore, they will be re-built at the same time with GnuTLS. > > > > Is anyone looking at this problem? Or will Open Solaris (despite the > > > best efforts of the Indiana team and the ARC "gang of four") just > > > drift away from Linux as more things become GPLv3? > > > > > Sun's legal people tole me that "?Sun prefers not to use GPL v3, Sun > > prefers to > > use GPL v2". Once legal people allow us to ship libraries or applications > > in GPL v3, > > we will enable the "extra" libraries. > > Just to clarify: in this case, "prefer" means that we ship something > under the "GnuTLS" name on Solaris that is different from the > same-named thing on Linux and lacks the capabilities available there. > Correct? Yes. We only ship the core library, which is the most important part of GnuTLS.
Jeff >
