[Xastir] mac osx 10.4.8 Xastir 1.8.5 working here, mostly.

[Steve Friis]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:55:20PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
>   
>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
>>     
> [probing for bdb]
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>> I'll give on the 5.x stuff.  You're right.
>> As far as the 4.6 and later versions, I'm torn between adding them
>> in as new versions come out, or add them all now and tweak code
>> later if things don't work.  
>>     
>
>   
>> I think I'd rather leave them in and
>> fix up configure.ac/acinclude.m4 to do a proper search for them so
>> the special config paths aren't required in most cases.
>>     
>
> Well, I guess there's room for differing opinions on that one.  
>
> If we only probe for those that exist now and are known to work, the way that
> new versions will show up is that someone will remark that they have BDB
> installed, and it's not detected.  
>
> If we do as you suggest, the way that incompatible new versions will show
> up is as link or compile failures, which will undoubtedly be more frustrating
> to folks less able to hunt down the cause themselves.
>
> I think I prefer the "add as needed" to the "expose unhappy 
> incompatibilities" approach.  But I think that the 4.x API is more likely
> to be stable enough for now that it probably is six of one and half-a-dozen
> of the other.  Looking more carefully at the map_cache code, the API change
> that was incompatible in early versions of 4.x was between 4.0 and 4.1, not
> between 4.1 and 4.2.  So it's been pretty stable for four or five minor
> versions, and it's probably OK to assume it'll stay stable until 5.x, at
> which time it'll probably be completely unstable again.
>   
Wouldn't it be better for xastir to report "incomputable version" and 
then recommend the Wiki site for a fix? Might be one way to do it.

Z