Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this >> by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions? >> i.e. when you add a libncurses.so.7, can you make it so >> that all apps that linked against

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. > > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then. Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this by maintaining better ABI compat

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Kegel
[+dickey] On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> So the obvious solution seems to me then to build ncurses twice, >>> providing both libncurses5 and libncurses6 packages. What point do I miss? >> >>The crashes that will happen when both are loaded in a >>pro

Electric VLSI Design System now open source!

1998-10-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Saw the following on http://slashdot.org. Sounds like very good news. - Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1998/10/10 Newsgroups: alt.electronics.analog.vlsi, can.vlsi, comp.lsi, comp.lsi.cad, cu.vlsi I am pleased to announce that the "Electric VLSI Design System" is now available to anyone wh