On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:36:25AM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> A "make update" may add new symbols to libeay.num and ssleay.num at
> any time. It may as well be symbols that weren't meant to be there
> and that get removed the next day or so... Such changes do not matter
> to the next release, but with the current mkdef.pl, it will take up a
> slot and maybe needlessly so.
>
> I wonder then, would it be a good thing to have the last release
> maximum slot number stored somewhere, to be updated during a release
> only? The purpose of that is that above that number, anything goes,
> functions may be reorganised, removed, readded.
We'll have to copy the numbers from the ...-stable branch anyway
before turning the development branch into a new release (if releases
have been made from the ...-stable branch). Instead of hacking
mkdef.pl, it's probably easier to add this issue to the "to do" list
for new releases.
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