[Monotone-devel] Concerns about the net.venge.monotone.stripped branch

[Richard Levitte]

Hello,

I've been watching the development of the net.venge.monotone.stripped
branch for a bit, and I'm starting to notice some dependencies that I
find concerning.

Just a moment ago, I saw a change that made the montone code depend on
the version of SQLITE as described by a C macro.  That's fine and
dandy provided you link monotone with the static library, but what
happens if it's linked with the shared library and then moved to
another machine with a more modern (or even slightly older!) version
of SQLite?
The hex function that was just defined might already exist on a target
machine that has SQLite 3.3.14, but monotone would still try to inject
its own version if it was built on a machine that has SQLite 3.3.12.
I don't know how SQLite handles such cases, but I do know that not
paying attention to that kind of thing have and still can lead to
problems.

Cheers,
Richard

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