Re: [sleuthkit-users] Multiple questions

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Hey Joachim,

On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Joachim Metz wrote:

> So I've just add a pull request to github, can anyone tell me what to expect on the response side?

It looks good.  I'll review it later today and merge it in.

> I see one other recent pull request of 14 days ago where it seems no one from the project has replied.

I see Jeff every day at work.  We're waiting to merge that in, but will probably do it by end of week. In hindsight, we should probably have made a 64-bit branch instead. 

> Note that this pull request is supposed to fix a serious defect causing the current code to segfault. Also at first glance this file needs some serious revisiting.
> 
> 
> Also what's up with the current so version number, why did it jump from 3 to 9 to 10 !? Also because the API is largely untouched?
> 
> sleuthkit 3.x.x was soname libtsk3.3
> sleuthkit 4.0.0 was soname libtsk3.3
> sleuthkit 4.0.1 was soname libtsk3.9
> sleuthkit 4.0.2 was soname libtsk3.9
> sleuthkit 4.1.0 was soname libtsk.10

I haven't tracked the final number. Is that set by the libtool/LDFLAGS version?

> Also can someone elaborate on the sudden change of hart to rename libtsk3 into libtsk?

Because TSK has been version 4 for almost a year and the '3' was for version 3. I dropped the version from the library name (and include paths).

brian