-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A while ago I had suggested updating pcre to something not so prehistoric, but at the time concerns were raised about library compatibility. Recently. I looked closely at the current version, 7.0, and compared it to Fink's 4.5. I can't find any reason why we couldn't update the package to the latest version.
Yes, there are 4 new functions added to the library, but adding functions doesn't break backward compatibility. If that were the case then anything built on Panther shouldn't work on Tiger. :) There are a couple of new fields added to the end of two structs, but again the developers designed this with backward compatibility in mind by requiring flags to be passed in to enable those fields. While upstream hasn't rigorously followed libtool versioning guidelines, even if they had, the install_name would still not have changed since 4.5 since CURRENT and AGE would still be the same. I've done some testing and encountered no issues, but I'd appreciate it if others could test as well. I can confirm, for example, that bluefish built against pcre 4.5 works fine with pcre 7.0. Postfix and nmap also seem to work. I've put the info file in my experimental directory at danielj/10.4/ pcre.info for anyone who would like to try it. Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: http://homepage.mac.com/danielj7/publickey.txt iD8DBQFFvRtl4sDFGYouOqARAu5ZAKCQHGVrhtY8r9gaGJmdDFqyTBAzKQCgj4N7 f3lgHUUn6LUKx9NKP+X5a6Y= =zH8R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
