We recently started looking at some of Desktop specific libraries for including them as part of next LSB (Linux Standard Base www.linuxbase.org) release. This is part of the effort in the newly formed Desktop working group in LSB to focus on the Desktop Linux applications. As a part of this effort we have started looking at the OpenSSL libraries and found the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg19158.html discussing ABI compatibility across different releases. I am specifically referring to comments from Richard below. I will like to find out what the Openssl community think about making the libraries part of next LSB release. Of course, the ABIs will need to become stable before that. What are the plans to achieve this ABI stability (including releasing 1.0 version of the package)? Thanks, -Rajesh ------------ The biggest change that's needed in OpenSSL is to hide all the structures and all constants and have them available through functions (creator, destructors and information functions). So speaking of incompatibilites, we've really kept it low compared to what needs to be done and what could be done.
Our version numbering is admitedly weird. Basically, we've treated '0.9.' as a prefix to signal that "this isn't a 1.0 yet, and drastic changes can be expected", and effectively trated the next digit as a classic major version. This is reflected in the soname we give the shared libraries. We probably should do some drastic changes in our version numbering (which is quite a lesson to me personally. I've been reluctant to make a move to 1.0 because OpenSSL hasn't felt ready for that). ------- ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
