On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 17:19 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
I'm not sure it would be wise to release the API as a full-fledged shared
library (although technically it makes sense) - some distributions such
as RHEL keep their libraries ABI compatible for the lifetime of the
distribution. What if we need to modify the API next release?
I think this is an exceptional case, as there will never be any consumer
besides sudo. So I think we'll be okay with getting ABI exceptions if
such a need arises.