proposal: libsmbclient functionality addition

[Gerald Carter]

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