Symbol versioning

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

> Ok, we'll not use symbol versioning and then take care
> of maintaining backward and forward compatibility...
> Do you have plans how to do that?

yes.  I already explained that in a previous mail.  You simply
have a compat library that proivides the old API but internally
uses the new functions.

> Note that we also need forward compat to use a new smbd with
> an old winbind, symbol versioning would have worked arround that
> as only new function would have a new version number...

Not really.  Until (if) we allow winbindd to be on a separate
release cycle, this is not an issue.






cheers, jerry
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