[Buildroot] socat version

[Yegor Yefremov]

Hello Gerhard,

thanks for the info. What prevents you from releasing final socat 2?
Is it lacking feedback from other architectures, than Linux?

Yegor

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Gerhard Rieger <gerhard at dest-unreach.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the 3 tandem releases were all security fixes, this required parallel
> releases of version 1 and 2.
>
> I am planning a 2.0.0-b8 that includes all fixes up to version 1.7.2.4
> and some version 2 specific ones.
>
> Kind regards
> Gerhard
>
>
> On 11/04/2014 02:13 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Danomi Manchego
>> <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Buildroot has been using the socat 2.0.0 series for a while.  We
>>> recently ran into a socat issue which was fixed upstream, but in a
>>> 1.7.2.4 release.  For rears, the socat people released a version 1
>>> release and a version 2 release in tandem, but for some reason, the
>>> latest release was only 1.7.2.4.  Reading about socat 2 at
>>> http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html I see it is
>>> (was?) described as "beta".
>>>
>>> So I was wondering: is buildroot on the 2.0.0 series under the
>>> normally sane presumption that 2.0 must be newer than 1.7, or is there
>>> an actual preference for the version 2 releases?
>> Adding Gerhard Rieger (socat maintainer) in CC
>>
>> Yegor
>
>