Difference between "lite" versions and regulars ones

[Alejandro Perez-Mendez]

Hi,

I'm sorry if  this has been asked many times, but I have been looking 
over the Internet for hours and I haven't found any satisfying answer.

As part of Moonshot, we are using libshibresolver, libshibsp, opensaml, 
etc. for parsing SAML assertions and resolving attributes. I have 
noticed there are "-lite" versions for many of these libraries, and I'm 
not sure what's the difference between them (if any), or if both 
complement each other.

For the XMLTooling-C, this page 
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/OpenSAML/XMLTooling-C 
indicates that the lite version is without security support, but that 
both need to be built anyway. Are the rest of -lite versions exactly the 
same, that is, a version of the library without security support?

Can I use the -lite version as a replacement for the regular version 
when linking from Moonshot?

Best regards,

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Alejandro Perez-Mendez
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