On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 16:24 +0000, Gordon Sim wrote: > > Is your concern long term or short term? > > I don't think it is appropriate at this point to break building trunk > against existing working versions of proton or to have a 0.28 beta that > can only build against proton trunk, especially for what seems to be > essentially a cosmetic change (as good as I'm sure that change is).
Yes, but you don't answer the question, is your concern long term or short term? > > At the very least this required informed discussion. Your announcement > of this change had the subject 'Additional options to detect Proton and > Qpid' and stated: I was under the impression that we had discussed this, it appears that we were talking at cross purposes for which I apologise - still read the below in the way I already explained. If I wasn't clear enough then I will try to be clearer in future. > > "Note that the existing pkgconfig files are unchanged, so if you were > using pkg config to detect proton or qpid you won't be affected." > > In response to my concerns about changing the approach I was using > (pkg-config) you stated: > > "Ths pkg config methods are unchanged so there's nothing to report > there. I've fixed up the qpid build myself, and so this change has > really only added an additional (cross platform) way to detect proton." > > That thread began with your request to extend support to 0.7, albeit > with a warning that it was not tested, explicitly stating that it would > allow 0.5 or later. Yes I that was unclear thinking on my part and probably led you to think that the 0.5 installation would work, whereas I was thinking about the 0.5 API level. If you feel that the current situation is untenable please raise a blocking jira and I will work with Justin to resolve the situation. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
