upgrade questions

[Jochen Katz]

Hi,

> to deal with is going to Red Hat 8, which has gcc 3.2.  Are there any 
> known problems with that?  Is anything expected to break?  (We now have 
> gcc 2.96-98.)

no, as I'm using a gcc 3.2.

> Next, sooner or later we'll need to catch up to the latest 
> agent++/snmp++ distributions.  I have followed the change lists for the 
> newer versions, but I dont remember seeing anything about the newer 
> releases not being backward compatible.  Can I take my code, which 
> inherits off the toolkit classes, and run it with the latest 
> agent++/snmp++?  I'm sure you can, but I wonder if there are any fixes I 
> need to do to my code to make it work.

Since 3.1.6 the SNMPv3 code was moved to classes (v3MP and USM)
(http://www.katz.dusnet.de/agent++Archiv/0212/0003.html).
For the latest release the queues within snmp++ changed and lots of code 
cleanups have been made.

So you will have to change your code.

Regards,
   Jochen