[Opensc-devel] OpenSC VERSION='0.15.0' API: A moving target to bind to on Linux?

[Carsten B. <ka6...@on...>]

Hello folks at OpenSC,

I downloaded 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensc/files/OpenSC/opensc-0.15.0/opensc-0.15.0.tar.gz/download
twice, last year and recently this year, and surprisingly the tarballs 
contents are quite different, as well as the file dates: 2015-05-16 and 
2016-02-16.
(I can't compare .zip archives; current still has 2015-05-16 file date, 
thus probably stable, but Windows isn't my first priority)

A binding (for a new driver written as external module in D; as well as 
the module acos5_64 itself) renders quite useless for the public if the 
version is a moving target.
Problems arise from API differences (called same version 0.15.0) in:
opensc.h (struct sc_reader_driver, struct sc_reader, struct sc_context),
pkcs15.h (struct sc_md_cmap_record, struct sc_md_cardcf, struct 
sc_md_data, struct sc_pkcs15_prkey_info),
sc-pkcs11.h (struct sc_pkcs11_config, struct sc_pkcs11_slot).

Thus I can base on version 0.16.0 only/earliest, which most people's 
Linux distributions won't supply for some time (my recent Kubuntu 
upgrade 16.04 comes with 0.15.0 whichever)?

Any ideas?

Thanks, Carsten