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Re: How to deal with custom libraries?



On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:30:38PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:26:27AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 06:51:06PM +0400, Michael Sobolev 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.

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