[adding Cc: Jens Peter Secher, the Debian maintainer for Crypto++, and Aurélien Bompard, the Fedora maintainer for Crypto++]
Dear Wei Dai and members of cryptopp-users mailing list: Per the discussion on the Python cplusplus-sig [1, 2], I no longer think this patch to build a shared lib for Crypto++ is a good idea and have eliminated it from my copy of Crypto++ which is bundled inside pycryptopp. I know that Debian and Fedora have both developed their own build systems for Crypto++ which do produce shared libs. It would seem useful for Crypto++ mainline and Debian and Fedora to share these build scripts with each other, and for either the former to persuade the latter to use the upstream (static lib) approach or for the latter to persuade the former to support the distribution (shared lib) approach, or at least for the build scripts to be added into the upstream repository along with some note saying "The following is what Debian/Fedora does to build shared libs, but this is not supported by Crypto++ upstream.". Adding the scripts into the repository and updating the readme or the GNUmakefile like this would be a form of inter-project communication, helping both sides to be aware of what the other side is doing and also helping third parties (like me) to recognize what the situation is. Thank you for your attention. Regards, Zooko [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/cplusplus-sig/2009-May/014531.html [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/cplusplus-sig/2009-May/014536.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" Google Group. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
