From: Roland <rolandu@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Make libmicrohttpd version configurable
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:14:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F56541D.3010508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120306184933.5dbaf329@skate>
Ok, didn't know about the 'one version only policy'.
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 17:18 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Make libmicrohttpd version configurable rolandu at gmail.com
2012-03-06 17:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
[not found] ` <CAG0mjpva6VP1u7EK9oOXUqeYYypCiC2yuE7ag4UtBqCkgc52UA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-06 17:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-03-06 18:14 ` Roland [this message]
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