Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: Where are the .tar.gz of 2.5.23, 2.5.24 ?

[Sylvain LE GALL]

Hello,

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:57:58PM +0200, spiralvoice wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is no really stable version without bugs, but that is not only 
> the case with MLDonkey;-)
> 

Totally agree.

> On the german forum we advise to use 2-5-16r, compiled with Ocaml 
> 3.07+2 because there are still issues with compatability to Ocaml 
> 3.08.0.
> 

Here comes the problem : mldonkey prevent ocaml 3.08.0 to enter testing.
That is the reason why i need a mldonkey which can build with ocaml
3.08. 

> This is also the version I am using here myself (only ed2k+Overnet)
> and 
> it is solid, no crashes, no file corruption. A collection of serious 
> bugs for this version was posted by me already on the english forum 
> though.
> 
> So my advise to package maintainers is to regard 2-5-16 as stable and 
> put 2-5-2x version into some kind of unstable branch.
> In the case of Debian this should mean 2-5-2x is unstable and
> 2-5-16(x) 
> should be in testing.
> 

No way, to come back to 2.5.16. I have uploaded different version of
mldonkey ( 2.5.21 ) since then and all unstable user have this version.
Moreover, the debian way of working generally prevent to come back to
older version.

> @Curtis: According to
> http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-p2p;name=mldonkey
> 2.5.16-r7 is marked stable and 2.5.2x cores are unstable. So don?t use 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", use /etc/portage/portage.keywords instead to 
> unmask packages you want to have. Then you should get the stable core.
> 
> The only problem is, that lots of people already use 2-5-2x cores and 
> downgrading to 2-5-16 is not easy so maybe we should leave things as 
> they are and bring the 2-5-2x series to the same stability as 2-5-16.
> 
> Of course 2-5-25+ should be tested for 1-2 weeks before 2.6 is 
> released.
> 

Hope we will be in time.

Anyway, if there is really big bug, even if mldonkey is in sarge, i can
go with a patch against the version that will be in sarge to correct
somes misbehavior ( if the patch is small ).

Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall