On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Evan Huus skrev 2013-03-01 22:03:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Evan Huus skrev 2013-03-01 21:38:
>>>
>>>> Not entirely sure this sort of thing is necessary - lemon is not our
>>>> tool, so even if Wireshark switches to C++ there's no immediately
>>>> obvious reason to start compiling other people's code (which we happen
>>>> to use) in C++ as well.
>>>>
>>>> Evan
>>>
>>> It's nice to get rid of the warnings regardless, isn't it?
>>
>> For tools with an upstream maintainer independent of Wireshark (as is
>> the case with lemon - it is maintained by sqlite for some reason) I
>> think it is generally better to avoid carrying a delta with upstream
>> unless absolutely necessary. It may be worth submitting your changes
>> to sqlite, then pulling a new version of lemon once they merge the
>> changes.
>
> This is actually copying changes from upstream to Wireshark unfortunately
> the two has diverged
> and strict back porting isn't possible(?)
I wouldn't have expected them to diverge at all, although we may no
longer have the latest upstream version.
Does anybody know why we might have needed local changes to our copy of lemon?