Marc Espie writes:
> Updating zlib correctly is surprisingly difficult.
>
> It's not just a question of whipping out the new version and doing a diff.
> You should make tests.
>
> Like, you missed the #ifdef SMALL at first. Those tests include making a
> full release, and making sure it still wor
Stuart Henderson writes:
> On 2014/12/23 22:54, Timo Myyrä wrote:
>> I was trying to port notmuch mail indexer but got little stuck with it as it
>> requires newer Zlib version than whats in base. I got little spare time in
>> my
>> hands and here's a rough patch which updates the base libz 1.2
Updating zlib correctly is surprisingly difficult.
It's not just a question of whipping out the new version and doing a diff.
You should make tests.
Like, you missed the #ifdef SMALL at first. Those tests include making a
full release, and making sure it still works.
It's also likely some of tho
On 2014/12/23 22:54, Timo Myyrä wrote:
> I was trying to port notmuch mail indexer but got little stuck with it as it
> requires newer Zlib version than whats in base. I got little spare time in my
> hands and here's a rough patch which updates the base libz 1.2.3 to version
> 1.2.8. So
> far I'
Hi,
There's some value in having a newer zlib release. There have been bugfixes,
documentation fixes, various improvements, and API additions. I'm not
sure how
much is backported to the OpenBSD zlib, but a quick glance through your
attached
patch suggests there's stuff that would be nice to hav
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Timo Myyrä wrote:
> I was trying to port notmuch mail indexer but got little stuck with it as it
> requires newer Zlib version than whats in base.
It is easy to patch notmuch, the requirement is rather silly. FYI.
Joerg
