[openssl-project] A proposal for an updated OpenSSL version scheme (v2)

[Viktor Dukhovni]

> On Sep 21, 2018, at 4:55 PM, Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org> wrote:
> 
> I think we need to get rid of OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER.

Absolutely not.  That's the one thing we must keep, and keep monotone
so that applications continue to compile and build.

Sure we need to communicate our ABI/API stability policies, and publish
release numbers and all that, but the API must provide a sensible
backwards compatible macro for testing whether the compile-time
version exceeds various threshold values.

We should also provide various helper macros, but NOT remove the
legacy encoded number.  That's a non-starter.

-- 
	Viktor.