unversioned public libraries in Samba (was: Re: ntdb in Samba?)

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:13:23PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 15:07 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 01:14:31PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > On 2015-03-13 at 20:51 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:01:42PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > > > Excellent idea.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I also find it regrettable that the proposed git tree has been
> > > > > withdrawn so fast..
> > > > 
> > > > My point is that we need a better communication strategy about which
> > > > pieces of Samba we want to take the liberty to change without notice
> > > > and which pieces we stick to.
> > > 
> > > That is easy (and has been stated several times):
> > > All components that are not explicitly flagged as
> > > published APIs/libraries can be changed by us at will.
> > > External consumers will have to adapt.
> > 
> > So every SAMBA_LIBRARY without private_library=True and with
> > a vnum= is a published API? 
> 
> Yes, that is exactly the rule.

This will make it practically impossible to refactor
internals, but thanks for this information.

Volker

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