Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Libethereal version

[Tomas Kukosa <tomas.kukosa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:02:18AM +0200, Tomas Kukosa wrote:
>
> > > Just an idea: Why use a version number? Maybe a hash over the generated
> > > exported apis would be more useful.
> >
> > With the version number the plugin can check or exact version number or
> > it can peform test for "version x.x.x or higher" or whatever else is 
> > necessary.
>
>
> The "or higher" semantics is useless. Every so often things change in an
> incompatible way which breaks older *and* newer plugins. So the idea with
> the hash value was to automate the changing of the version string, as
> in fact the hash value is some sort of version string for exactly this
> collection of api calls. It's just not monotonely increasing.


I agree there are better and more exact ways how to check ABI compatibility.

Disregarding its usage can we export libethereal version?