On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Leif Hedstrom wrote:
> On platforms that provides this feature, should we make it mandatory for v3.2
> ("trunk")? I think it'd simplify things, and avoid bug reports / problems
> related to it. Granted, we still have to clean up our code mess here (with
> duplicated code in 2-3 places), but keeping libcap optional has little to
> gain I think (it's available pretty much on any reasonably modern Linux,
> including old distros such as Fedora Core 7).
>
> This would require libcap and libcap-devel (or libcap-dev) on Linux platforms
> at least.
>
> Thoughts?
How would this affect support on Mac OS X?
Regards,
Alan
