development under 1.5.0 ?s

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> By testing.  It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of
>> the changed datatypes as parameter or part of a parameter.  This
>> part of the application is of course not 64 clean.  However,  for
>> testing purposes I've build OpenSSH using the current OpenSSL and it
>> still worked fine.  Just as a prove of concept.
>>
>
>I tried this with some of our apps too and poof, seg fault.  I was just
>hoping someone had already figured out any easy test to see if a dll is
>effected.
>
>I think package maintainers are going to have a hard time figuring out
>when it is safe to recompile under 1.5.0.  And I bet there will be some
>circular dependencies.

What's hard?  They should be compiling now and releasing a test version,
now.

cgf

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