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"