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May I put your tarball to our public FTP archive?

Keith> Certainly. I hope it's useful to somebody. However, it still Keith> needs a lot of work...

Ok. It's in ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/libsmi/ now.

Keith> Question: how "complete" would you say libsmi is now? is it Keith> really almost ready for 1.0? Do you anticipate any great Keith> changes to the API?

I think the API is quite ok now, having the usual SMIv2 use cases in mind. There are lots of error detections that could be added to the parsers. Other things could be added like additional backends like an `SMI daemon', or fast access to an SMI database. But these things are not expected to change the API (significantly), and these changes are not more than dreams right now.

On the other hand, we are research people. This means we have to invent new things. ;-) Based on our work on SMIng we want to add further information to the information model, which needs an interface in the API. But these changes that we expect in future releases will hopefully just *add* data structures and functions, so that existent code will continue to work without changes. In theory. ;-)

Talking about the libsmi version, I'd say it's nothing more than a number, that should be incremented from time to time. I don't believe that a 1.0 release would stop us from any progress. ;-) I'm more concerned about too many changes in the API that could get application developers and users in trouble. -- !! This message is brought to you via the `libsmi' mailing list. !! Please do not reply to this message to unsubscribe. To subscribe or !! unsubscribe, send a mail message to libsmi-request@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de. !! See http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/ for more information.