2008.12.17 20:54 "[Tiff] Deleting tags from a directory", by Frank Warmerdam

2008.12.21 15:57 "Re: [Tiff] 3.9.0 release, Was: tiffvers.h - TIFFLIB_RELEASE macro addition", by Jay Berkenbilt

Please see

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1980

This is my patch to remove the unwanted ABI changes from 3.9.0. I just went through all the CVS logs and found the changes committed by Joris around the time he made the fix. I then backported the changes to branch-3-9 in CVS. The changes were small, and I was able to hand-apply the patch without a problem. I rebuilt and then tested several applications built with 3.8.2 and run with the shared libraries from 3.9.0. Everything looks good. If this patch is accepted, I withdraw my objections against the release of 3.9.0 and would add my voice to those encouraging a speedy release.

I'm really sorry I didn't just do this when I first noticed that Joris's changes had not been committed to the trunk. I'm sorry that this issue caused such a long delay in the release, but as I said before, I'm very grateful that Bob, Frank, Andrey, et al held off on making an ABI-breaking release with the same soname.

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Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>