Bruno, Thanks for the reply. A new release soon after the change would be nice. If not, please let us know and I can grab a new CVS snapshot with which to package a new Debian version. Phil, As soon as the dependency on roteprivate.h can be removed, the way will be clear for an official Debian package. It should be only a few days after you make the new version of anyterm available that a package will be in Sid. -Roberto On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:20:54AM -0300, Bruno Oliveira wrote: > a patch to add that funcionality would be most welcome. As for the > reading of the pty descriptor, I guess there should be an interface > function for returning it, rather than moving the field to rote.h. > That way binary compatibility won't be broken. > > I'm a little short on time so I'll do those modifications after july > 4. But if any of you want to send me a patch for that I'll apply it > right away! > > Thanks for the continued interest in my software, > Bruno > > On 6/23/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote: > > Bruno, > > > > I am working on packaging your ROTE library for Debian, as I am also > > packaging anyterm, which depends on ROTE. I have a couple of requests. > > > > First, would it be possible for you to modify the library build process > > to create a librote.a and librote.la for inclusion in the development > > version of the library package? > > > > Second, would it be possible for you to include the information from > > roteprivate.h used by anyterm [0] in the rote.h header? I ask this > > becuase it is not possible for the Debian package build system to make > > roteprivate.h, which is only in the source of rote, available during the > > build of anyterm. This leaves only a couple of options, none of which > > are acceptable. Specifically, the anyterm pacakge would need to > > include a copy of roteprivate.h (which would couple the two packages too > > tightly), or Phil would need to include a copy of the rote source in > > anyterm, which misses the point of a library. > > > > I have emailed Phil about this, but this is not a very high priority for > > him since the current setup works for him and the changes we need to > > make this happen will cause you difficulties by breaking binary > > compatibility in your library. > > > > If you would be willing to accept patches for inclusion in the next > > release or if there is anything else we can do, please let me know. > > > > -Roberto > > > > [0] http://anyterm.org/1.1/install.html > > > > -- > > Roberto C. Sanchez > > http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr > > > > > > > > > -- > Bruno Takahashi C. de Oliveira -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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