Re: [Jamin] Re: Bug#260220: jamin: Can't start jamin with new swh-plugins (0.4.7-1)

[Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:55:03 +0200, Robert Joerdens wrote:
> Hallo Sebastian!
> 
> Sebastian Gutsfeld schrieb am Monday, den 19. July 2004:
> 
> > | jamin 0.8.0
> > | Cannot find plugin 'lookahead_limiter_const_1906.so'
> > | Cannot find preferred limiter, looking for alternative
> > | Cannot find plugin 'lookahead_limiter_1435.so'
> > | Required plugin missing.
> > 
> > As lookahead_limiter_1435.so was part of swh-plugins I think this has
> > to do with the new swh-plugins package.
> 
> Yes. Actually it's swh-plugins problem. The old swh-plugins should have
> been kept and a new one with a different package name been uploaded.
> swh-plugins has changed the API by removing (moving) a plugin. We will
> have to either get two different versions of swh-plugins or wait for a
> new upstream release of jamin that uses the new plugin (something like
> fast_lookahead_limiter...).

The old lookahead_limiter_* plugins were irreperably broken. There is a
replacement, but it has a different interface. This was sadly absolutly
neccesary.
 
> jamin-devel: When can we expect a new release?

Any time now. I think there are candidate release tarballs around.

- Steve