[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.2 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:47 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Lasse Collin wrote:
>> Some existing binaries compiled against non-largefile shared zlib  
>> depend
>> on z_off_t being 32-bit. Changing z_off_t to 64-bit changes the  
>> ABI of
>> zlib, thus all these applications need rebuilding. I think this  
>> should
>> be emphasized when releasing a stable version of zlib.
>
> More to the point, this change is so major in terms of breaking user
> expectations and binary compatibility that it would be better to  
> release
> as 1.3.0.  A very valuable change, but it does introduce a number  
> of issues
> as Lasse points out.

Good point.  I've had a lot of requests for this, so perhaps I should  
just make it a configure-time option and default to using off_t.

mark