Thoughts about library contexts

[Tim Hudson]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:36 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 18/02/2019 10:28, Tim Hudson wrote:
> > It should remain completely opaque.
> > As a general rule, I've never seen a context where someone regretted
> making a
> > structure opaque over time, but the converse is not true.
> > This is opaque and should remain opaque.
> > We need the flexibility to adjust the implementation at will over time.
>
> I think we're debating whether it is internally opaque or not. Externally
> opaque
> is a given IMO.
>


And my comments apply to internally opaque too - I was aware of that
context when I wrote them  - this is something that we will want to change
as it evolves over time.
And we shouldn't have a pile of knowledge of the internals of one part of
the library spreading over the other parts.

Tim.
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