On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:26:43 +0100
"Armin K." <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was thinking about upgrading wireless-tools for first. Now, I see two 
> version available.
> 
> The latest stable version of Wireless Tools is version 29
> 
> The main features of the latest beta is support for non-ASCII ESSIDs 
> (such as localised ESSID), support for displaying Scanning Capabilities, 
> slightly bigger scan buffer, fixing minor bug iwconfig parser and minor 
> enhancement to ifrename :
> 
> Wireless Tools version 30-pre9 (beta)
> 
> I was thinking about using latest beta version because of such new 
> features. Big distros already use that one, and I personaly don't see 
> any issues with it. What do you think? Which one should I upgrade to?

I use 29. In BLFS we use the current stable version unless there is a
compelling case to use something else. Eg with Pango, we currently use
a development version because we wanted to put gtk+-3 in the book and
it's not possible to compile gtk+-3 with the current stable version of
Pango.

Andy
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