On Thu, 2026-01-15 at 14:59 +0000, Michel Lind wrote: > Hi all, > > Davide Cavalca and I currently maintain a stack of packages based on > Folly, the C++ library from Meta. > > These have been rather messy to package, partly because the upstream > practice makes them hard to fit into the way distributions do things: > > - no stable API/ABI > - upstream prefers static linking > - a lot of header-only files with incomplete test coverage, meaning a > bug in Folly or another library might only be exposed when building a > leaf package (and sometimes only on less common architectures) > > As such, and given the trend in other language ecosystems (Golang > defaulting to vendoring, Rust allowing vendoring if necessary) I am > going to retire these this week, leaving only the leaf packages, and > then bundle the Folly projects they need > > To be retired: > > - folly > - fizz > - mvfst > - wangle > - fbthrift > - fb303 > These are now retired in Rawhide.
Best regards, -- _o) Michel Lind _( ) https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2 README: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Salimma#README
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