On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 17:01, Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 12:38:20PM +0200, Ivan Zhakov wrote: > > I would suggest separating APR in different libraries, while keeping them > > in one project/source tree. > > > > Something like that: > > - apr-2 > > - apr-dbd-2 > > - apr-dbm-2 > > - apr-xlate-2 (?) > > - apr-crypto-2 > > - apr-xml-2 > > - apr-ldap-2 > > - apr-memcache-2 > > - apr-redis-2 > > > > I want to clarify that I don't propose going back to apr-util time when > APR > > was splitted to separate projects: this proposal is only about libraries > on > > the disk. >
[...] > Open > questions on where to draw the line, as to what goes in a separate > library, and much more I'm sure. > Well, it's a good question. I was thinking about something like that: "everything that can be used in libapr-*-2 should be in libapr-[core]-2". I mean in **general** we should avoid dependency like app -> libapr-ABC -> libapr-XYZ -> libapr. Another way to draw the line is to move *everything* that incurs external dependency to a separate library. -- Ivan Zhakov
