[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] opensm/event_plugin: plugin API version 2

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Hal,

On 14:28 Mon 30 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > As we learned recently having structured API leads to such problems just
> > well, in this case one can expect "stable API" even if it was never
> > declared.
> 
> I hardly think that situation is comparable if you are referring to the
> library APIs exposed inside of OpenSM for the vendors who wanted these
> without OpenSM itself (for diags and ibutils).

Why not? We got complains about changes in libosmcomp just few weeks
ago. I clearly don't want to make such limitations for OpenSM itself.

> > I think I agree with Ira - OpenSM version exact match enforcement will
> > make it clearer that plugin writer should be ready to rebuild and
> > possibly update its code.
> 
> should being the operative word.
> 
> > > Might this be better handled as packaging with separate packages based
> > > on licenses ?
> > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> This is related to what I wrote below about the OpenFabrics licensing
> requirements. The idea is if GPL licensing were to be allowed (perhaps
> only in some limited context), then there could be two different
> packages: dual and GPL. In that way plugins would be more assured of
> being compatible with each other and OpenSM.

I would prefer to separate packages by its functionality and not due to
licensing issues. Anyway GPL is not permitted in OFA and all this
discussion is yet hypothetical.

Sasha