Re: [Hamlib-developer] 4.6 released

[Greg T. <gd...@le...>]

Nate Bargmann <n0...@n0...> writes:

> I released 4.6 this morning.  I figured I better get this out as a
> Christmas present for all involved.  Thanks to Mike and all of the
> contributors for making this release a reality.  It doesn't happen
> without you.

Merry Christmas!

I updated hamlib in pkgsrc, and ran into only one easy-to-fix problem,
use of stdargs.h-defined macros without an #include.
  https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/issues/1644


I then moved on to rebuilding the depending programs I had installed,
and ran into the rigcaps const issue in xlog, fldigi (an older
release), and freedv (not necessasrily up to date).

I see

        * rig_caps is no longer constant -- this may break some 3rd party relying on the "const" declaration.  Here's an example of how to handle compatibility.
	    #ifdef RIGCAPS_NOT_CONST
	    static int add_to_list(struct rig_caps* rc, void*)
	    #else
	    static int add_to_list(const struct rig_caps* rc, void*)
	    #endif

but I don't understand what's going on and why.  It makes sense that
when supplying a function to an iterator, that the function is not
allowed to modify.  And I don't see why passing a non-const to a
function that promises not to modify is trouble.