[Pkg-ace-devel] Plan for ACE+TAO upload

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,


On 05/03/2010 09:25 PM, Thomas Girard wrote:
> Le 03/05/2010 16:07, Johnny Willemsen a écrit :
>> First, to my idea packaging should just be packaging, no patching to
>> ACE/TAO files. If there are issues found with packaging they should be
>> fixed the correct way on svn head.
>
> Yes, we agree on that. I'll ask Eric to check why my account on the DOC
> repo is not working. In the meantime, could you please review and
> fast-track changes in the DOC repo?

Yes, but when time permits

>
>> On 05/01/2010 03:47 PM, Thomas Girard wrote:
>>> 1 Decide what to do with library naming, either:
>>>       libWhatever-x.y.z.so; or
>>>       libWhatever.so.x.y.z
>>>
>>>     Upstream uses the latter. But I would go for the former; see
>>>     rationale in [1] that was applied for autoconf method and IMHO
>>>     should be applied for traditional method as well.
>>
>> I prefer the last one
>
> Could you please elaborate on that? The fact that the version x.y.z
> follows the .so makes one think there is an ABI versioning being used,
> while it's just a release version, with no backward compatibility.

Good reasons, let us do the first one than.
>
>>>     - uses_wchar
>> We shouldn't do that, that is a completely different build
>
> What would this bring us? What is the loss?
it will mean that all api's that use ACE_TCHAR will be wchar_t, that is
just partly tested and lots of known issues

>
>>>     - sctp
>> Is stable for production, but enabling this will mean we add that
>> dependency, do we want that?
>
> Depends on the dependency I would say :-) Does this require a kernel
> level dependency (which would be a no go), or only userspace library?
> Can it be disabled at runtime, or only at compilation time?

It would add a dependency on sctp, probably user space. it isn't enabled
by default on all builds, let us keep it disabled

Johnny
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