Hamish wrote: > Markus Metz wrote: >> compiles now in 64, but no longer in 65 (stats library >> in 65 is different from 64), > > til now we have only really worried about backward- > compatibility at the data and command-line level. > None the less, all attempts should be made to keep the C > API function calls stable. I'm not talking about new > functions here, I'm talking about modified ones. > > In the past we used new function calls like G_fn_name2() > when there was a function change within the major version. > (ie for fns already released in a stable branch) > > needing patches to build on diff't versions of 6.x is a > clear sign on failure on our behalf. > FYI, the change in question happened 11 months ago, on Sep 4th 2009, in lib/stats. IOW, this is not an internal module fn, it's a grass library fn, a change that should have been backported months ago. There have been a number of changes to existing fn calls within minor versions in grass6 (grass 6.0.0 was released around March 2005 which is some time ago...)
Markus M _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
