Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833

"Eric S. Raymond" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Organization Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>:
> I think that variable.magic is only needed if the old MIB registration API is
> used (register_mib() etc.). That API was deprecated more than ten years ago.
> I think that we should tell users to move away from that API rather than
> helping them with fixing the shortcomings of that API.

2833 should probably be maeked WONTFIX abd closed with that exolamation, then.
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