[Buildroot] [PATCH] Make libmicrohttpd version configurable

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello Roland,

Please don't reply just to me: keep the list in Cc.

Le Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:38:39 +0200,
Roland Uuesoo <rolandu@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> Version 0.4.6 is 2 years old (13 march 2010).
> 
> A lot of bugs/security problems have been fixed.
> 
> And there are new features added.

Ok.

> Made it configurable because someone might need the old version.

Then just bump the version to whatever more recent version is
available. We don't support multiple versions per package in Buildroot,
because it would be a maintenance nightmare. For example: each version
will need different patches, different configuration options, etc.

So we have decided to keep things simple and support only one version
at a time, except for U-Boot, Barebox, kernel, and critical things like
that. People doing a project with Buildroot are anyway forking a
particular version of Buildroot to ensure that they are fixed on a
given version of all the components they are using in their system.

Best regards,

Thomas
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