[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [ANNOUNCE] management tarballs release

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
> On 23:04 Wed 23 Jul     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
>> > On 22:19 Wed 23 Jul     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Are you saying
>> >> it's going to work with those changes if the APIs are used ?
>> >
>> > func(void *p) was changed to func(const void *p), why not?
>>
>> Not that one; we already discussed that. I thought there was some
>> other change. Am I mistaken ?
>
> So what? new functions? How this will affect backward compatibility?

New apps built (out of tree) using new APIs with this tar ball won't
link against older ones with same version which will lead to
confusion.

> Anyway I see this issue as pretty minor. It is fixed now

Is the version in libibmad.map updated now ?

> and will appear in next tarball release.

What is your "policy" for updating the various versions on an API update ?

-- Hal

> Sasha
>