Mailing List Archive: Suggestion - decouple functionality upgrade from API changes

Per Jessen wrote:
> The latest 0.95 release brings a new flevel 41 with the previous one
> from 0.94.2 being 38. Unfortunately it looks like libclamav 0.95 isn't
> a drop-in replacement for 0.94.2, but brings along changes to the API.
> I'm sure there are good reasons for that, but for anyone using the
> clamav library directly, the new flevel is not available without local
> changes to the API.
> In the future, might it be possible to make new flevels available
> without changing the API ? Through a wrapper or some such?

Hi Per,

One of the issues that 0.95 addresses is API/ABI stability across revisions.
Please take a look at the new API and feel free to suggest anything
could help to limit the issue even more.

Cheers,
-aCaB
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