[haiku-development] Re: Compatibility breakage: wchar_t -> long int

  • From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:10:22 +0200

On 2009-06-23 at 00:38:06 [+0200], Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 21:11, Oliver Tappe<zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > While this is good, applying this change will require every haiku
> > installation to be rebuilt completely. Additionally, all optional packages
> > which might make use of wchar_t in any way, would have to be updated, too.
> 
> Would it be worthwhile to apply this on a branch first?
> This would allow us to identify which optional packages need to be rebuilt.

You're right, that should avoid a longish phase of incompatibilities between 
haiku and the optional packages. I'm going to create a branch for that.

cheers,
        Oliver

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