Revamp of libsmbclient

[Derrell Lipman]

BTW, if this goes into the release, I will certainly be providing
upgrade notes.  It will probably fit in one page; the changes,
although extensive-looking in the code, are not extensive from a user
perspective.

Derrell

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Derrell Lipman
<derrell.lipman at unwireduniverse.com> wrote:
> Reference the clean-up of libsmbclient that I've been discussing...
>
>  This patch is large, so I suspect viewing the patch itself won't be
>  useful.  You can pull from the us2: /data/git/derrell/samba3 repository.
>  You'll want the libsmbclient-reorg branch.
>  Note that only minimal change was required to a few
>  of the example applications and no change was required to other applications
>  for them to work with this new libsmbclient, although they did of
>  course require recompiling since this is not ABI compatible.
>
>  As noted in the commit message, this patch doesn't yet handle the
>  authentication function changes (and I believe I'll be able to have a
>  backward-compatibility mode for those so that user apps won't require
>  changes to their auth functions).
>
>  I'd really like to do this change.  Maintaining the status quo means
>  that libsmbclient will be almost entirely in a bug-fix maintenance
>  mode, but taking this opportunity, during a major version number
>  change, to upgrade the interface to something that is then easily kept ABI
>  compatible in the future allows for more features to be added.
>  Yes it will cause the distros a bit of work and I understand the
>  resistance, but forever maintaining code that's not easily and cleanly
>  extended is, to me, the wrong thing to do.
>
>  Awaiting the cries of agony.  Please take a look and provide comments.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Derrell
>