Re: How to deal with custom libraries?
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:33:12AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > > As I already said, language chooser does depend on special versions of slang
> > > > and newt. How this situation should be dealt with? I believe we cannot supply
> > > > sources for these libraries in boot-floppies package.
> > >
> > > So these special version are not in potato!?
> > No. The reason is pretty simple: they are not backward compatible with the
> > normal versions (and the available patch for slang is for version 1.4.0, while
> > in potato we only have 1.3.9). So I think that adding such libraries would
> > be not that easy.
>
> Given that, IMO, it is a little too late to have this in potato.
I'd say that due this incompatibility we just have to have two separate packages in
distribution: one with utf-8 support, and one without.
--
Mike
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