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On Sunday 24 August 2008, Colin Ward wrote:
> On 23/08/2008, you wrote:
> >> Ok, thanks. Depending on their quality these may be a reason to move
> >> to 4.3.10 for the release. I will investigate.
> >
> > The reason to move to 4.3.10 is that 4.2 is no longer going to be
> > supported. All effort is moving to 4.3/4.4 and 4.9/5.x. Plus, 4.4
> > hasn't really changed much, it probably wouldn't take much more than a
> > few file copies to "port" your 4.2 changes to 4.3.10.
>
> Interestingly I originally did the port against 4.3 but had to go back to
> 4.2 as the Amiga's pthreads implementation had some bugs that were causing
> 4.3 to hang when using certain primitives. However we have a new pthreads
> implementation now so I should be able to move back to 4.3.10 for my
> release. Thanks for the advice.
Here is the confusing part, the 4.3 you likely originally used is now called
4.9. 4.3.0 and 4.3.1 were renamed 4.9.0 and 4.9.1, and 4.3.10 is based on 4.2.
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