On 21 June 2012 09:40, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think we're only talking about OTP apps (snappy, ejson/jiffy, mochiweb) >> here. >> Would you want those as separate packages? > > Yes, preferably. To give an example, if for some reason there was a > security vulnerability in snappy, it would be great if the distro > doesn't have to go around checking which packages might package their > own snappy, and instead can just update the canonical snappy. This > goes for the other stuff, too. I should really have helped out more on > making it easier to build against system versions of these apps, but > that requires some autotools and/or Erlang foo that I really don't > have. > > I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1458 for snappy > two months ago. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan
Aah yes I remember that, maybe Filipe can comment. Currently snappy is built with a mix of CouchDB/Erlang NIF layer & the google code in one chunk, it's not actually two separate shared objects / DLLs. Could it still use the system version in this case? I would guess not? A+ Dave
