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Re: kerberosIV headers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Aug 22 18:02:24 1996

To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Aug 1996 18:02:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:25:37 -0400

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:

    Ken> We're installing the krb4 library but not the krb4 headers.
    Ken> I'd like to have the headers installed when krb4
    Ken> compatibility is enabled, so legacy apps can be rebuilt
    Ken> against a krb5-with-krb4-compat installation, rather than
    Ken> requiring a separate krb4 installation as well.  Otherwise, I
    Ken> don't see the point in installing the compat libraries, since
    Ken> no one can build an application to use them.

    Ken> However, I noticed that this was disabled a year ago.  Any
    Ken> good reason we should keep it disabled?

	I sent mail about this to krb5-bugs recently and have yet to
hear a good response explaining why it would be a bad idea to
re-enable.  It was my plan to enable it this weekend if I didn't hear
anything.

    Ken> Ken

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