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Re: [ITP] cadaver: Command-line WebDAV client
>>>>> Max Bowsher writes:
> Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> I would like to contribute and maintain the cadaver package:
>>
>> * http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ (Homepage)
>>
>> Max, would it be possible to recompile neon so that it picks up the new
>> openssl package ?
> Refreshing neon is of course, not a problem.
Thanks.
> However, there is another potential problem.
> Neon is still in development, and breaks API compat fairly regularly. I
> was planning to move from neon 0.24.x to 0.25.x soon (an API break).
> When I do, of course a _runtime_ compat package will remain, but after
> investigation, I found that it would require quite a lot of work to make
> it possible for multiple versions of development versions of neon to
> co-exist - so I hadn't been planning on doing that.
> This isn't a problem, so long as all client applications are actively
> maintained, and get updated reasonably promptly to compile against new
> upstream neon versions, but cadaver hasn't had a release in over a year.
> I couldn't find conclusive information on whether the current cadaver
> release is compatible with 0.25.x - do you happen to know?
It's under discussion on the cadaver mailing list.
If you upgrade neon to 0.25.x and cadaver is not compatible I can always
rebuild it with the bundled version of neon (0.24.6)
> Max.
Ciao
Volker