[17439] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Future ASN.1 support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nico Williams)
Fri Dec 9 20:39:26 2011
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:22:53 -0600
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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a good idea but we could take take the hit of an
> ABI bump and change some of our types.
It's a very good idea in one sense: it will let you make opaque,
extensible types out of a lot of currently-part-of-the-ABI types.
It's a bad idea in another sense: it will break source compatibility
with a lot of apps, and will cause a lot of grumbling.
But then, the crappy ABI can be dealt with in two
backwards-compatibility preserving ways: 1) add new APIs and types as
needed, 2) push app developers to use the GSS-API. (2) is
particularly good.
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