yes, stability rules. On January 10, 2023 1:58:38 PM GMT+01:00, "m. allan noah" <kitno...@gmail.com> wrote: >No way. It is not good practice to add a major, potentially breaking, and >partially untested change to git mere days before a release. I propose that >this change (or a derivative) gets merged a couple weeks after the release. > >allan > >On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 1:06 AM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> We have a long-running issue related to pthread use in SANE backends. >> See here: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/153 >> >> I proposed a change to sanei_thread to try to sort some of these issues >> while improving detection of builds that abuse the restrictions >> surrounding pthread_t values. That proposal is here: >> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/750 >> >> Povilas and I had some discussions about this solution and given the >> impending release of 1.2.1, someone has expressed a desire to see these >> issues solved, particularly as they relate to MacOS, which is properly >> broken at the moment. :( >> >> Could I get some further comments on the proposed solution and I would >> especially appreciate if we could see some testing of that branch >> solution on platforms other than Linux? >> >> Cheers, >> Ralph >> >> > >-- >"well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of >my hand"
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