proposal: libsmbclient functionality addition
Gerald Carter
jerry at samba.org
Wed Jun 19 14:05:03 GMT 2002
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:23:18AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >
> > The problem I have here is that we do not seem to have asked our user base
> > what they want.
> >
> > I can appreciate the need for changes, as I need them myself, but
> > maintaining backward compatibility may be something that is important,
> > given that libsmbclient is being shipped with a number of Linux distros
> > now.
> >
> > Also, Caldera may want some say, considering they funded the effort
> > originally.
>
> Ah. I didn't know it was being used externally. Can't change it
> then. Backwards compatibility is king.....
>
> The very least we must do is maintain the existing interface, whilst
> we add new ones.
Would this be the time to get the library versioning in place? :-)
cheers, jerry
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