[ofa-general] Re: Dapl 2 question/issue

[Arlin Davis]

Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
> You *should* be claiming that regardless.  The API between dapl-1 and
> dapl-2 changed, some of which is fixed simply be recompiling and some of
> which requires actual code changes.  Just because the library name is
> the same doesn't mean that code built and compiled against dapl-1 could
> or should attempt to run against dapl-2 (unless I'm wrong here, Arlin
> should really speak to this issue...if the dapl-2 libraries provide
> backward compatible symbols via so symbol versions, then it might be
> possible for a dapl-1 program to run against the dapl-2 library, but
> then that would beg the question of why we are still distributing dapl-1
> libraries in a separate package, so I'm guessing there is not a back
> compatible layer in the dapl-2 library).

You are correct. dapl-1 programs cannot run against dapl-2. That is why 
both v1 and v2 packages are provided. We have to support existing v1 
applications while providing a transition path to v2.

-arlin