Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:04:23 +0000:
> well this wouldn't be difficult to fix in gentoo since the ebuild could > see what version is installed and apply a patch for fixing the includes > based on the installed version of glib. the other distros might need > another way to fix this up, though. Imagine meeting you here! =8^) Yes, Gentoo can quite easily (almost trivially, now that the parameters are known) fix it with ebuild wizardry, no problem there. Similarly the various binary distributions, most of which after all only support a relatively narrow version range on actively supported releases, building everything to what they ship with and perhaps supporting the next stable during their support life. The problem is that ideally, distributions support upstream, and upstream ideally wants to support the widest version range possible. Creating a patch not just usable for a particular distribution, or a particular distribution's version range, but for the widest range possible, now /that/ is a rather less trivial task, but it's the one we've set out to accomplish, therefore best helping not just one distribution, but upstream, and with it, as wide a range of existing and upgrade versions as reasonably possible. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
