Dear OpenSSL, A colleque of mine voiced his displeasure about the lack of documentation about what exactly has changed in between 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 APIs ?
He reported that Apache (in windows xp / cygwin) stopped working after updating openssl in that system from 0.9.6x to 0.9.7. I have also heard similar comments from other sources (in pure UNIX platforms), but nobody has been able to give me documentation about these changes. In compiling one software suite I did observe changes in some parameter prototypes requiring me to use 'const' types in some places where it previously wasn't necessary. (Very sensible, and likely even backwards compatible change, that one -- SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() parameter function prototype now passes 'const SSL *' pointer, where it previously wasn't a 'const' thing.) The CHANGES file in source tarball (which, IMO, should be published also separately in web besides each source tarball file containing changes in between released version, and its predecessor) does not yield clear picture about the issues, either. This is mainly because it shows also all small detail internal changes. In one maintained source package I have separate file: README.UPGRADING which contains synopsis of changes affecting compability issues in between versions. Something of that style is very usefull for systems, like yours. More so, if you could also publish it in web so that we don't need to download the package in order to find it. /Matti Aarnio ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
