>>>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:47:49 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
> 
> On 04/22/2014 03:30 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:38:13 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
> >> In general yes, it is much more stable, because it is build by
> >> Bacula Systems (usually me) with the correct libraries and delivered
> >> to paying customers.  With other versions you get they may or may
> >> not be built with the correct libraries (especially the correct Qt
> >> libraries). Yes, it has a few more features because it is a later
> >> version.   I do not have an exact list of new features though.
> >> ...
> >> At the moment, we are not planning a new community version because
> >> it is too much work for me to maintain two different versions, build
> >> them and test them.
> > At the risk of sounding rude, why can't you publish a working build script
> > that checks for the required libraries, so users can build the source
> > reliably?
> 
> During the standard make process the source code does check for the
> correct libraries, but often packagers patch the source to turn off the
> check or they change the required version to what is on their build machine.

Yes, I understand that packagers might release some junk, but that's no reason
to prevent users from building their own if they follow the recommendations.

I keep hearing talk of "old community code" which makes it sound like the
Win32 support has become proprietary.

__Martin

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