<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Adherence to the code style will also be required (indentation will change). This will be harder to automate.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Changing EVP_RAND -> OSSL_RAND is worse because it will change line breaks as well as indentation. OSSL_RNG avoids this, if we accept not using RAND in the name.</div><div class="">KDF and MAC also get longer and would have the same issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then there are the inevitable merge conflicts….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pauli<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Jul 2020, at 6:15 pm, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <<a href="mailto:Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com" class="">Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I was thinking OSSL_LIBCTX?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">That's a good choice and consistent with how we name the variable in most (but not all) places:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>OPENSSL_CTX *libctx;<br class=""><br class="">I volunteer to raise a pull request which does a scripted bulk rename, as soon as we have made<br class="">a decision. Ideally, the bulk renaming should go in shortly before the next alpha. Having it<br class="">automated by a script would ease rebasing of other still unmerged pull requests over the change.<br class=""><br class="">Matthias<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: SHANE LONTIS <<a href="mailto:shane.lontis@oracle.com" class="">shane.lontis@oracle.com</a>><br class="">Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 9:43 AM<br class="">To: Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <<a href="mailto:Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com" class="">Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com</a>><br class="">Cc: Richard Levitte <<a href="mailto:levitte@openssl.org" class="">levitte@openssl.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:openssl-project@openssl.org" class="">openssl-project@openssl.org</a><br class="">Subject: Re: API renaming<br class=""><br class="">I was thinking OSSL_LIBCTX?<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>