[Buildroot] socat version

[Buildroot] socat version

[Danomi Manchego]

All,

Buildroot has been using the socat 2.0.0 series for a while.  We
recently ran into a socat issue which was fixed upstream, but in a
1.7.2.4 release.  For rears, the socat people released a version 1
release and a version 2 release in tandem, but for some reason, the
latest release was only 1.7.2.4.  Reading about socat 2 at
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html I see it is
(was?) described as "beta".

So I was wondering: is buildroot on the 2.0.0 series under the
normally sane presumption that 2.0 must be newer than 1.7, or is there
an actual preference for the version 2 releases?

Danomi -

[Buildroot] socat version

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Danomi Manchego
<danomimanchego123@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Buildroot has been using the socat 2.0.0 series for a while.  We
> recently ran into a socat issue which was fixed upstream, but in a
> 1.7.2.4 release.  For rears, the socat people released a version 1
> release and a version 2 release in tandem, but for some reason, the
> latest release was only 1.7.2.4.  Reading about socat 2 at
> http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html I see it is
> (was?) described as "beta".
>
> So I was wondering: is buildroot on the 2.0.0 series under the
> normally sane presumption that 2.0 must be newer than 1.7, or is there
> an actual preference for the version 2 releases?

Adding Gerhard Rieger (socat maintainer) in CC

Yegor

[Buildroot] socat version

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Danomi" == Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com> writes:

 > All,
 > Buildroot has been using the socat 2.0.0 series for a while.  We
 > recently ran into a socat issue which was fixed upstream, but in a
 > 1.7.2.4 release.  For rears, the socat people released a version 1
 > release and a version 2 release in tandem, but for some reason, the
 > latest release was only 1.7.2.4.  Reading about socat 2 at
 > http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html I see it is
 > (was?) described as "beta".

 > So I was wondering: is buildroot on the 2.0.0 series under the
 > normally sane presumption that 2.0 must be newer than 1.7, or is there
 > an actual preference for the version 2 releases?

I don't think there's any real reason that we've gone with 2.0 series. I
atleast wasn't aware of the two branches. We moved from 1.4 to 2.0 a
long time ago (back when we used subversion), and the person doing the
change is no longer active.

commit 3fde5702db832475c4a45aa3f35aac7839c6a710
Author: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 2 08:29:31 2009 +0000

    Bump socat version, optionally add configure variables

Gustavo, you have recently bumped the version - Do you have anything to
add?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] socat version

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 11/08/2014 06:22 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> I don't think there's any real reason that we've gone with 2.0 series. I
> atleast wasn't aware of the two branches. We moved from 1.4 to 2.0 a
> long time ago (back when we used subversion), and the person doing the
> change is no longer active.
> 
> commit 3fde5702db832475c4a45aa3f35aac7839c6a710
> Author: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 2 08:29:31 2009 +0000
> 
>     Bump socat version, optionally add configure variables
> 
> Gustavo, you have recently bumped the version - Do you have anything to
> add?

Hi.
My bump was purely for security purposes so i kept on the same series
that was before.
Since i don't generally use socat feel free to switch to the 1.x series
if that's considered better.
Regards.

[Buildroot] socat version

[Yegor Yefremov]

Hello Gerhard,

thanks for the info. What prevents you from releasing final socat 2?
Is it lacking feedback from other architectures, than Linux?

Yegor

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Gerhard Rieger <gerhard@dest-unreach.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the 3 tandem releases were all security fixes, this required parallel
> releases of version 1 and 2.
>
> I am planning a 2.0.0-b8 that includes all fixes up to version 1.7.2.4
> and some version 2 specific ones.
>
> Kind regards
> Gerhard
>
>
> On 11/04/2014 02:13 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Danomi Manchego
>> <danomimanchego123@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Buildroot has been using the socat 2.0.0 series for a while.  We
>>> recently ran into a socat issue which was fixed upstream, but in a
>>> 1.7.2.4 release.  For rears, the socat people released a version 1
>>> release and a version 2 release in tandem, but for some reason, the
>>> latest release was only 1.7.2.4.  Reading about socat 2 at
>>> http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html I see it is
>>> (was?) described as "beta".
>>>
>>> So I was wondering: is buildroot on the 2.0.0 series under the
>>> normally sane presumption that 2.0 must be newer than 1.7, or is there
>>> an actual preference for the version 2 releases?
>> Adding Gerhard Rieger (socat maintainer) in CC
>>
>> Yegor
>
>