Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] request for help: oolite

[Eric Heintzmann]

Hi,


Le 01/08/2016 à 13:51, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :
>> On 1 Aug 2016, at 12:38, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> This was my guess too, but it seemed like the use of exitLock is quite 
>> limited. I was not aware it was a recent change :-)
>>
>> Aside from someone trying to ask Oolite to fix their init, should we also 
>> cut a release of base then?
>
> I don't think base is anywhere near ready for the 1.25.0 release yet (but 
> it's far too much changed and binary incompatible  for another 1.24.?).
>
> I would imagine a 1 line fix to explicitly initialise (for instance) NSDate 
> might solve things in Oolite.
>
> Alternatively, a patch for 1.24.9 in Debian to add/use exitLock might be an 
> option.
Now gnustep-make is uploaded, I'm going to prepare an upload this
week-end to close the RC bug in gnustep-base package( by disabling
concurrent.m test).
Do you think that add/use exitLock is preferable ?

Eric