[Pkg-ace-devel] Access to svn

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> | I'm amazed things are evolving so fast :-)
> |
> | Maybe in a week or so we'll have an up-to-date ACE+TAO!
> 
> > Last Sunday I tried to build the packages for 5.7.7 from source and it
> > did not work. Patch 34 needs an update for 5.7.7, which I've just
> > committed. It does not work yet, though. I tried on Ubuntu Karmic.
> > Unfortunately, I don't really have time for more testing this week.
> 
> Ok, for 34 I did ask some questions through bugzilla, seems this is not a
> real good maintainable patch
> 
> | Johnny refers to the following bug submitted a while ago:
> |   http://bugzilla.dre.vanderbilt.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3408
> |
> | The patch 34 in Debian is indeed a crude hack that neeeds to be tweaked
> | with every new ACE+TAO release. I think the proposed approach is much
> | more cleaner, and using a variation of patch available at
> | http://bugzilla.dre.vanderbilt.edu/attachment.cgi?id=1001 should
> | do.
> |
> | Johnny, indeed I think we still need this: we want to be able to use TAO
> | packages without having to install -dev packages, or without the need
for
> | a symlink. The latter would prevent installing separate versions of TAO
> | libraries at the same time - which, I agree, is unlikely to happen.

Seperate versions happens frequently, we should support that

> | What do you think?

I do think we need to have a more generic ACE solution, the versioned
library issue is visible now for TAO, but also the ACE tests show similar
problems

Johnny