Re: improving ABI "survival rate"

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:09:48PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> In fact, it struck me just now that we can in fact introduce ares_setopt()
> right now and move the 'rotate' and the new 'ipv6servers' to get set by
> this new function only, and then we'd remain ABI compatible with the
> previous release and still start moving towards this new approach!
>
> What do you say about that?

FWIW, that seems like a good approach to me. I presume we're also
talking about ares_getopt() for each option to cover the functionality
of ares_save_options(), of course.

Plus, it gives you a chance to (soon) kill ARES_OPT_TIMEOUT ;)

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