Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:44:38 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New DES library for secure/ Message-ID: <9509141644.AA04049@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199509141615.SAA15579@grumble.grondar.za> References: <199509141615.SAA15579@grumble.grondar.za>
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<<On Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:15:57 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said: > Going back to my proposal - I see how it can be inconvenient, but in this > case I am proposing quite a large shift, and I hope I am creating > something that can be built on for a long while. The name lib_des_ > seems to have outlived its usefulness, as my original poroposal pointed > out, and I would rather not create historically bad names if we do > not have to. How many applications are there _now_, installed > and dependant on libdes? I would say very few. The important point is that the DES library associated with Kerberos v4 has been called `libdes' from time immemorial, and that to break this would be a rather gratuitous change for absolutely no benefit. (The DES libraries associated with Kerberos v5 are called `libcrypto' and `libdes425'.) Now, I have no objection if you want to call it `libfoo' and then create `libdes' links (assuming that the new code is call-compatible with what we have now), but it is important to me that we avoid ``change for change's sake'', as it does bad things for our public image and irritates people trying to port and manage software on our platform. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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