Raising libwbclient version to 1.0?
Steven Danneman
steven.danneman at isilon.com
Fri Nov 21 21:39:36 GMT 2008
> Kai Blin wrote:
> > On Friday 21 November 2008 01:18:57 Steven Danneman wrote:
> >>>> should we raise the libwbclient version to 1.0 due
> >>>> to the major changes?
> >>> Technically we have only added calls and not changed existing
> >>> function signatures so I don't think a major SONAME change
> >>> is necessary. But maybe I missed something.
> >> I would like to add a query_only ability to sid<->[ug]id mappings,
> that
> >> will probably modify the existing API. However, I won't have time
> to
> >> do this before 3.3 is released.
> >
> > Perhaps we still could modify the API to support what you're
planning
> to do. I
> > figure that adding an enum "mode" to wbc[UG]idToSid and
> wbcSidTo[UG]id would
> > be sufficient.
>
> I'd vote to add a new API call. Adding an enum only burdens
> the use of wbcSidToUid(), et. al. calls IMO.
I'm fine with this approach. Define new wbcQuerySidToUid() calls. This
will only add to the API and thus not break backwards compatibility.
-Steven
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