2016-07-25 14:24 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl <[email protected]>: > 2016-07-25 14:16 GMT+02:00 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>: >> All, >> >> I am exploring an option which might enable us to keep the old API >> interface in liblognorm, which would make the benefits of v2 available >> to some apps that insist on the old APIs for the time being. I >> probably need a day or two to explore that and will hold the new >> release until then. >> >> Given the fact that I have not yet seen any packages turn up, I think >> we could go back to the old soname. Or should we consider this as >> "game over"? > > Strictly speaking, you bump the soname when the ABI changes in an > incompatible way. > Also there aren't that many reverse dependencies of liblognorm afaics > (Debian lists two: rsyslog and sagan), so please take that into > account before you invest too much time on that.
I dug out the conrete API in question. This is the one I am mostly concerned about. https://github.com/rsyslog/liblognorm/commit/91433f98e5e0cb5be5bd4c32186f22d8bbcf3fbf As far as I know, this is used in a python binding, which would probably make v2 unavailable for it. I needed to remove that API because it is not compatible with the v2 datastructure and it's creation. HOWEVER, at some point we decided that we need to have full v1 compatibility and so liblognorm v2 carries the full v1 engine with it for quite some time now. As we have that engine, the API can also be used when a v1 rulebase is loaded. It just cannot work with the v2 native v2 engine. I think we could return an error in that case, but so provide a simple way to migrate to the new system. As far as I have checked, this was the only breaking API change from v1 to v2 [but I would check more closely if we follow that route.]. Any thoughts? Rainer > Michael > > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
