Re: providing a libidn compatibility API

[Simon Josefsson]

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>  What do you think of the following merge request:
>  https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2/merge_requests/4
>
> It introduces a (very-limited) compatibility API with libidn, allowing
> several applications to switch from IDNA2003 to IDNA2008 by changing
> idna.h with idn2.h.

I like the idea of a compatibility layer -- but I strongly believe we
need to keep the ^idn2_.* namespace in the shared library, everything
else will cause serious confusion in distributions when apps will be
linked to both libraries.  Mapping idn_* into idn2_* calls should be
done through a header file, so which symbol is needed is decided at
compilation time.

I must admit I haven't looked at what got pulled into git later on,
still catching up on emails...

/Simon

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