[Info-vax] OpenSSL CSWS-2.2-1

[Craig A. Berry]

On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 12:30:05 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-04-29, Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > While it will probably throw a wrench into human-readable version
> > comparisons for those versions that already exist, v3.x.x might be a good
> > time to deal with the fact that in a few years there will likely be an
> > OpenSSL 10.x.x.  A product name like SSL0300 for a release based on OpenSSL
> > 3.0.x would have an obvious relationship to a product called SSL1013 and
> > based on OpenSSL 10.13.x.
> >
> 
> I agree.
> 
> In fact, all VMS kits based around open source products should just use
> the open source product version number as part of the kit name instead
> of making up a version number that is VMS specific.
> 
> Having VMS specific version numbers for open source products is just
> yet another source of confusion that simply does not need to exist.

I agree, but I'm actually talking about product names not version numbers.  If you want to simultaneously support two different versions that are not binary compatible with each other, you need different product names and they need to appear not just in the kit names but also in the filenames of whatever libraries end up in sys$share or sys$library, not to mention system-level logical names.