Hi Guy,
Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. jan. 20., Cs, 21:52):
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> On Jan 20, 2022, at 12:34 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Q: Should *wsutil* be part of that stable ABI?
> >
> > Debian, Ubuntu and (according to rpmfind.net) OpenSuSE and Mageia treat it as such. It would be helpful to know what non-Wireshark packages depend on wsutil in those distributions and elsewhere.
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> ...and, if there are any, to know *why*.
It seems libvirt's plugin needs wmem_alloc(), for example:
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17889
IMO it is easier mentally to have a single library ABI policy because
we ship only public libraries. Having a more relaxed private shared
library policy would make it easier to make mistakes.
Also if libwsutil (with wmem_alloc) became private in 3.6.x then
libvirt had a much harder time continuing the maintenance of their
plugin starting with 3.6.0.
Cheers,
Balint