Re: New way to integrate gnulib into projects?

[Bruce Korb]

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 An out-of-date gnulib-dev wouldn't be anything new.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