Hi all, If you're thinking of packaging hexter 0.6.0 for your favorite distribution, please wait for version 0.6.1. I've been talking with Anthony Green about his efforts to package hexter 0.6.0 for Fedora, and it seems I made a mistake. hexter 0.6.0 can sound radically different from hexter 0.5.9, depending on the patch used, and I didn't want anyone's existing projects to break if they upgraded. So I changed the way hexter 0.6.0 installs: it installs as hexter6.so, while hexter 0.5.9 installs as hexter.so, so the two versions can coexist. This works well enough for people who install from source, but Anthony pointed out that this makes things difficult for people packaging hexter for distributions. For most distros, when one upgrades, the old files are removed, meaning hexter.so would disappear and existing projects would break. Distros with something akin to Gentoo's SLOT mechanism can have multiple versions installed simultaneously, but the majority of hexter users will have no need for anything but the latest version. What I'm going to do with version 0.6.1 instead is make it install as hexter.so, just like 0.5.x versions, and add a configuration option which will optionally make it sound like 0.5.9. Problem solved: existing projects can easily be made to sound like they originally did, and everyone can have the latest and greatest hexter installed. Expect 0.6.1 sometime this coming week. Thanks, Sean Bolton
