On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:06:42PM -0800, Robert Ramey wrote:
Nikolay Mladenov wrote: As to why it's this way, the answer is pretty simple. The original version of the library has some errors. Problem is, fixing them is much harder than with other libraries because of the requirement to maintain the ability to read archives created with previous versions.
This is not an answer. Why was this code defined out, and what is solved by doing so? What _is_ the underlying problem, there is nothing in your message that explains why this happens. No-one goes around and disables code blocks for no reason, removing functionality. I cannot trust a library that has secret known bugs, especially if it has a track record of messing up (like the forgotten version bump and all that). -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se