[Pkg-ace-devel] [ciao-users] CIAO questions ...

[Konstantinos Margaritis]

On Παρ 03 Σεπ 2004 01:10, Thomas Girard wrote:
> 1. Switching to ACE 5.4.2
> =========================
>
> I have split my monolithic patch against ACE 5.4.2 into smaller,
> cleaner, logical pieces to ease integration with dpatch. These
> patches are available in
> http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/patches.

Ok, I'll take a look at them during the week, right now my schedule is 
very busy unfortunately.

> I haven't tried recompiling Debian packages since this split. I
> will tomorrow and let you know if I encounter any problem.

Ok, I'd like to hear how that goes. Basically Brian Nelson the other 
ACE co-maintainer was working on exactly using dpatch on the 
packages, but I can't seem to be able to reach him lately. Brian, are 
you reading this?

> Noteworthy stuff :
> * There is a package named `mpc' on mentors.debian.net. Following
> gperf example maybe mpc should be renamed to mpc-ace.

Agreed.

> * X and/or Qt reactor were completely removed.

Hm, perhaps we should allow the creation of extra packages using mpc 
makefiles, but I have no experience with mpc whatsoever so I would 
appreciate any help. It would be handy to provide extra packages for 
those who use these reactors.

> * A bug fix was backported from CVS [bug report at:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tao-bugs/message/3915] so that the
> NotifyLoggingService doesn't crash on log close. That's the reason
> why upstream version is 5.4.2.1.
>
> * I've reported and proposed a patch for an issue in MPC. See
> http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1915. I haven't
> received feedback on this yet.

Let's include it.

> * I have tried to tackle as many opened bugs as possible. Currently
> I have no idea about Bug#265238 status.

me too, it's too vague, let's see how the user deals with new 
versions.

> 2. Reactor separation using MPC
> ================================
>
> I need to think more about this and read again that thread in
> archives.

Ok.

>
> 3. cidlc package
> ================
>
> There are external dependencies for cidlc to be built. They are
> Debian packages available from
> ftp://kolpackov.net/pub/Utility/Utility-1.2/deb. I think this
> dependency should be handled first.

I can't say for sure that I can do a new package upload this close to 
the sarge release. It might be best to leave the cidlc package for 
post-sarge.

Regards

Konstantinos