Re: [Arsperl-users] ARSPERL and ARS 7.0

[Jeff M. <jcm...@je...>]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:13 -0400, Carey Matthew Black wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I can not answer all of your questions, but I hope this helps.
> 
> ARS API (by design) should work with previous versions. ( Unless there
> is some major change that requires a "break" to happen. Which should
> be avoided where possible and mostly limited to "Security" type
> issues.)
> 
> So in all likely hood ARSPerl v1.85 was written (or last updated/test)
> when v6.3 was the "latest version". I doubt anyone from the project
> has really tested against v7, but I would expect it to work. 

This typically isn't the case. The API is compatible insofar as you can
connect to a 6.3 server with a v7 client, and vice versa. The API isn't
compatible (usually!) in the sense that you can take code written for
the 6.3 API and compile it against the v7 libraries.
 
> I can also comment on the "encrypted connections" part with respect to
> an v6.3 ARS server. There are some "ARSPerl compile time settings"
> that you need to get the encryption libs in place. Other than that, it
> has worked well for us.  I hope that v7 does not bring us any new pain
> points. ( I have not noticed any changes in the C layer that look
> alarming to me. So I expect no issues with v7 API specifically, but I
> could have missed something too.)


The simplest test is to set Makefile.PL to compile against the new libs
and see what happens.