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From: | Bruce Korb |
Subject: | Re: New way to integrate gnulib into projects? |
Date: | Mon, 17 May 2021 08:06:38 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 |
On 5/17/21 1:17 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I still think the best solution is to put much of the gnulib stuff into an installable gnulib-dev package that would be required by the bootstrap script. I proposed that about 2 decades ago, but we're still spending gobs of compute and wall clock resources recomputing the same stuff. :(The problem is what to do if your project requires a newer version of some gnulib file.
We already have that problem. Every now and then I try to build some project for some reason or another, but it turns out it needs a more recent libwhatever-dev installed. I install that, but _it_ needs libsomethingelse-dev, but my version isn't up-to-date enough. Or I can't find it at all. An out-of-date gnulib-dev wouldn't be anything new.
OTOH, I'm retired, less quixotic and mostly use computers for email, Zoom and PhotoShop, which won't even run on Linux. (I've tried emulation, no go. :)
Cheers - Bruce
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