Re: providing a libidn compatibility API

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd expect the idna2003 + idna2008 apps to be rare, but you got a
>> point. I think the define approach is reasonable.
> Agreed.
> In practice I believe we will see significant number of applications
> that will link to both libraries because of indirect dependencies.  It
> will easily take 5-10 years before applications stop link to libidn in
> the supported released GNU/Linux distributions.

I've pushed a merge request documenting the changes in libidn2 0.17:
https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2/merge_requests/8

Hopefully that can be the first release that we can use to initiate a
migration from libidn1.

regards,
Nikos