slgdbm_1.6-2_i386.changes is NEW

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Wed Sep 28 13:13:08 UTC 2005


* Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt at hetnet.nl> [2005-09-28 14:38]:

> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:03:21 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> said:
> > I would keep the first version really short.  The only two things that
> > are important for now is the package naming, the installation directory
> > for the modules, and maybe the dependency relationships.  The upstream
> > Makefile for slgdbm installs the module in
> > /usr/share/slsh/local-packages, but I moved it to /usr/share/slsh.
> 
> Rather it installs the module in /usr/local/lib/slang/v2/modules, and a
> gdbm.sl script in /usr/local/share/slsh/local-packages, which is probably
> what you mean.

Yes, this is what I meant, sorry.

> > Suggests: slsh (>= 2.0) | jed (>= 0.99.17) | slrn (>= 0.9.8.1pl1-4)
> 
> Well, it is possible to compile the gdbm module with slang 1 - of
> course you'd have to edit the Makefile to install in v1/modules.

The question is: can a module compiled with SLang2 be loaded by Slang1 ?  In
other words, is there binary backward compatibility?

-- 
Rafael



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