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Re: libssh2 >= 1.0 now mandatory?

From: Guenter <lists_at_gknw.net>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:48:59 +0200

Hi Daniel,
Daniel Stenberg schrieb:
> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Guenter wrote:
>> if we really require a newer libssh2 version now shouldnt we then
>> reject older versions at configure level already?
>
> We don't require anything newer than libssh2 0.16, and lib/ssh.c has
> #ifdefs for HAVE_LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_DIRECTIONS for that reason.
hmmm...

> I do think however that inofficial libssh2 builds like 0.19.0-20080814
> could be subject to some "between versions" problems and I really would
> recommend against using such releases in a distro. The libssh2 project
well, wasnt my idea - just what SuSE offered by default in main repo;
I've already last week pinged the packagers to update to 1.1 :)

> makes "real" releases for such purposes and I don't think you'll
I know, I know.....
> experience these problems with one of them...
but we know both that we had not often releases in the past before 1.0;
IIRC 0.19 stayed for more than a year :)

Gün.
Received on 2009-05-19