Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:51:16 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Brian Ford cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > > > Yeah, that's what I thought. I was hopping we might have figured out an > > > easy way to do this by now, though. Oh, well. I'll figure it out myself. > > > > > > One reason I ask is that I am the unofficial lesstif maintainer, and I > > > need to figure out when it is safe to build the new lesstif libs. > > > > If you use no other DLLs, you can simply recompile the lesstif DLLs and > > release them in a test package. Otherwise, check the prototypes of the > > functions your DLLs call to see if they contain any of the changed > > datatypes (see Chris's reply), perhaps recursively in structs. If not, > > you can use them. > > > I just checked, and lesstif only depends on the Xlibs. I haven't checked > yet, and don't plan to (that's a huge job!), if any of the Xlib > interfaces use any of the types that changed sizes, however. > > So, being the conscientious package maintainer that I am, do I go ahead and > release a new test lesstif package before the Xlibs have been recompiled, > or do I wait? > > lesstif should come out the same regardless. But depending on > the types used in the Xlib interfaces, my new lesstif test package may be > broken until a new Xlib test package is installed and released. > > Do I have this right? Well first things first, as I think Corinna mentioned, we need to release new library packages. So yes, I guess lesstif applies. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk elfyn@emcb.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/