[strongSwan-dev] [strongSwan] implementing plugin version checking

[Noel Kuntze]

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Hello list,

I am working on implementing version checking for plugins to prevent the mixing of different
library and plugin versions. This has accidently happened in the past and caused issues.
Implementing this will reduce the work load in support slightly.

The code I wrote thus far is in the "plugin-version-check" branch[1] in my strongSwan repo fork[2]

It works by accessing the "version" attribute of the public interface of the plugin during load time
and compares it with the "version" attribute of libstrongswan. That obviously requires ever plugin
to have that attribute set.

I stumbled upon the problem, that to define a plugin's version and make sure that it is included in the shared object
statically, I'd need to touch that plugin's source files. So if I wanted to introduce version checking,
I'd need to edit every single plugin and at the same time, it will cause that third party plugins won't build
without changes.

Is there another solution to this problem?

Kind regards,
Noel

[1] https://github.com/Thermi/strongswan/tree/plugin-version-check
[2] https://github.com/Thermi/strongswan/
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