"Travis" <travis.shorel...@gmail.com> posted ee3985f694f44887a37b26eac04af...@travispc, excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:18:45 -0700:
>> Our recent pan angel, K. Haley, has already included that change in >> his/her git archive (git://github.com/lostcoder/pan2.git) for which I >> once again send my thanks to him/her. > > How do I get it into my Windows version of Pan? Presumably, you'd find the patch (search bugzilla, and/or the list archives for it), apply it to the pan sources, and recompile. I have a script here with Gentoo that makes such patch application as simple as dropping a file in a directory named for the package, in most cases, which is nice when a new version of gcc came out and I'm trying to recompile everything with it, and a lot of packages need patches that aren't in the Gentoo tree just yet. The tough part of course is finding all the necessary patches, tho they're often in Gentoo's bugzilla already, and if not, very often in other bugzillas (upstreams, Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Novell/SuSE, etc). That's the great thing about open source -- the community works cooperatively enough that once one person has the solution, it tends to spread to everyone else quickly enough, so no one person or company has to do all the work. But of course Gentoo isn't Windows. Anyway, I think I saw one of the two guys that usually provide Windows binaries, mention that they were going to apply the patches and see about getting new Windows binaries out, too. But I haven't seen the announcement that they're actually available, yet. So it's either grab the patches, apply them and compile it yourself, or wait for them to do it. -- 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
