[ewg] Compatibility in OFED

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 09:55 Mon 02 Jun     , John Russo wrote:
> In OFED 1.3rc2 we noticed that libosmcomp's version had changed from 1
> to 2.
> 
> Unfortunately this has caused forward compatibility problems for
> existing applications which were compiled against OFED 1.2.5.1.  It
> would be preferred if when such upgrades occur, both the .1 and .2
> version of the library are provided such that existing applications do
> not need to be recompiled nor reinstalled.

What is the problem to recompile? Anyway you can keep old version if you
like.

> Alternatively limiting the
> necessity for such library version changes (never break old interfaces)
> would be preferred.

It is hard to promise for 100%. libosmcomp is not a great candidate for
stable API (it is even not documented). I'm sure that changes were done
for a reason and obviously it was published/discussed on the list.

Sasha