[arch-general] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x

[Andrea Scarpino]

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Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x
Date: Friday 05 March 2010, 17:48:28
From: Marq Schneider <queueram at gmail.com>
To: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>, Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org>, 
Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>

I'm emailing you guys directly since i don't think i have access to
this mailing list.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 08:34, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Looking at the release notes, monotone appears to ship with an internal 
version of botan.
> Can you just use that rather than making an additional package?

I have never heard of or seen this in the monotone source.  If you
want to build botan 1.8.x and statically link it in as part of the
monotone PKGBUILD.  See my attached PKGBUILD on FS as an example (the
2nd one) [0]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 08:34, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I dragged this into the repos a few years ago when it appeared
> it might become one of the big DVCS tools. This one stayed under the
> radar compared to git and mercurial, however. Pidgin does use it for
> what it is worth to manage their codebase.

I've been following this discussion on arch-dev-public and the FS [0].
I work on pidgin from time to time, so this is a must have for me to
continue development.

I wanted to ask: why did botan get updated to using the development
(1.9.x) branch instead of the stable (1.8.x) branch?  Arch jumped from
1.8.5 to 1.9.3 back in November.  I am all for keeping packages
up-to-date, but i am not sure that i agree with hopping to the
development branch.  I don't follow the botan mailing list at all, but
the stable branch is still worked on (now up to 1.8.8).  If nothing
requires 1.9.x, would it do any harm to revert botan to 1.8.x?

Regards,
Marq

[0] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17297
[1] 
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/botan/trunk/PKGBUILD?op=log&rev=0&isdir=0

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Andrea `bash` Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer