Re: [Pan-users] Patch from Bug-ID 754698 / New version of pan?

[Petr Kovar]

Hi all,

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:45:04 +0100
Detlef Graef <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> is there a chance to release an new version of pan (0.140?) with the
> following patch applied?
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754698
> 
> Description:
> 
> g++-5: newsrc-* files are created in current working directory instead
> of ~/.pan due to change in std::string return semantics
> 
> Pan doesn't run an Fedora 23.
> 
> Same problem on OpenSuse an Debian/sid:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756458

Thanks for the heads up, Detlef. I've applied the patch from #754698 to
pan's git master. As others have suggested, this and other yet-to-be-fixed
crashes are related to the recent C++11 ABI breakage in GCC5
(http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/02/05/gcc5-and-the-c11-abi/).

So the status is that the pan codebase desperately needs someone with C++
knowledge to go through it and fix it. Volunteers welcome! :)

We could finally get the 0.14O out of the door and try to attract new
contributions, but then again I'm not sure we want to make a release with
half-broken code. What do others think?

Cheers,
pk