Posted by
Martin McClure-2 on
Oct 13, 2020; 5:49am
URL: https://forum.world.st/ANN-Libgit-1-0-0-in-Pharo-9-tp5123353p5123400.html
Thanks, this is great news.
Are there instructions on how to make P9 actually use the new version of
libgit2? I see that the stable Linux VM for 9.0 does include
"libgit2.1.0.0.so" but Pharo is still loading libgit2.so.0.25.1.
...this may be because Pharo's libgit2.1.0.0.so has not-found
dependencies on libpcre.so.3 and libpcreposix.so.3.
I find Debian's versioning of libpcre somewhat confusing. The package
"libpcre3" is the *old* libraries, and new stuff is supposed to use
"pcre2." 2 is apparently newer than 3. At any rate PCRE library naming
is rather distro-specific, and although I have the right packages
installed, the libraries have different filenames.
But libgit2 is not supposed to have PCRE as a dependency. The source
code for PCRE is included in the source for libgit2. Seems like it would
be possible (and nice!) to compile the libgit2.1.0.0.so included with
the VM to include the PCRE code internally, rather than depend on an
external library.
Thanks,
-Martin
On 10/12/20 2:26 AM,
[hidden email] wrote:
> Hi, a later announcement (this have been done some months ago... but I
> never send the mail).
>
> We have upgraded in Pharo 9 to use the latest stable version of Libgit.
> It required to have some improvements in Libgit to handle the updated
> version and also to support the previous version.
>
> From the point of view of new features, it does not add new things.
> However, this version fixes a lot of existing problems in Libgit.
>
> We can be sure this was a successful deployment as we don't have
> problems with it. We are really happy that this has been done
> transparently and keeping the working version with different
> configurations of images and VMs. As we should support new and old
> images, on the same VM. And also running new images in old VMs
>
> Thanks.
>