Backward compatibility issue

[vivek]

Hi,

We are facing a backward compatibility issue with cross namespace traversal if static classes ( like PG_ProviderProfileCapabilities, etc)  are used for registering provider in the InterOp namespace. 

If used with tog-pegasus version 2.9.1, which comes with OS, the mof compolation is failing for PG_Capabilities. The reason is PG_InterOpSchema20.mof is being conditionally compiled in the InterOp namespace as follows,

FILE: PG_InterOpSchema20.mof

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#pragma include ("PG_Events20.mof")

#pragma include ("PG_ProviderModule20.mof")

// PEGASUS_ENABLE_SLP.  Bug 1222 The following should be enabled when

// The interop classes and support are made permanent.

// It is removed here and placed as a separate item in the

// Makefile because there is no way to do a conditional in

// a MOF file.

// #pragma include ("PG_CIMXMLCommunicationMechanism20.mof")

// #pragma include ("PG_Namespace20.mof")

// #pragma include ("PG_ServerProfile20.mof")    

All the required class definition like PG_ProviderProfileCapabilities, PG_ElementConformsToProfile are not getting compiled in the InterOp namespace. It is conditionally getting compiled if PEGASUS_ENABLE_INTEROP_PROVIDER is defined.

Hence mof compilation fails with parse error. 

I believe it is a backward compatibility issue for us. Is there any known solution for it?

Regards,

-Vivek