[Buildroot] socat version

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Danomi Manchego
<danomimanchego123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Buildroot has been using the socat 2.0.0 series for a while.  We
> recently ran into a socat issue which was fixed upstream, but in a
> 1.7.2.4 release.  For rears, the socat people released a version 1
> release and a version 2 release in tandem, but for some reason, the
> latest release was only 1.7.2.4.  Reading about socat 2 at
> http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html I see it is
> (was?) described as "beta".
>
> So I was wondering: is buildroot on the 2.0.0 series under the
> normally sane presumption that 2.0 must be newer than 1.7, or is there
> an actual preference for the version 2 releases?

Adding Gerhard Rieger (socat maintainer) in CC

Yegor