From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:14:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Make libmicrohttpd version configurable In-Reply-To: <20120306184933.5dbaf329@skate> References: <1331054328-6564-1-git-send-email-rolandu@gmail.com> <20120306182046.56f21098@skate> <20120306184933.5dbaf329@skate> Message-ID: <4F56541D.3010508@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Ok, didn't know about the 'one version only policy'. Le Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:38:39 +0200, Roland Uuesoo 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