[ltt-dev] LTTV BUG: Recent upgrades broke the JNI interface

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Alexandre Montplaisir (alexandre.montplaisir at polymtl.ca) wrote:
>
>>> You don't want a patch that makes the JNI functions access
>>> "marker_field->_offset", do you? I can carry it out-of-tree to restore
>>> the previous functionality (and compilability (is that a word?)) for
>>> TMF, until they change their parser methods, since they'll probably get
>>> hit by the same bug as LTTV.
>> Please don't do buggy workarounds at the library level to leave TMF
>> causy with its current bugs please. They must fix their app to upgrade
>> to the newer library version, period. I'm afraid we cannot release the
>> TMF package until they do.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mathieu
>
> "Your package is now uploading..."
> Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C...
>
> But still, don't you think a mostly working app with a "KNOWN BUGS:"  
> disclaimer is better than a completely non-working one? I guess they can  
> use an older version, which isn't much better.

Leave TMF with the old version until they adapt then.

And common.. this is going to take a jiffy to fix. Why has this not been
done yet ? The new library has been out for a few weeks already.

Thanks,

Mathieu

>
> Matthew: How long do you think it'd take to get fixed? It will require  
> adjustments both in the jni_interface.c and the JniParser.java code in  
> TMF, if I remember right.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mathieu
>>>>
>

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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