Lorn Potter wrote:
src/3rdparty is where Trolltech for insane reasons known only to
themselves had imported libraries from community they use.
Not insane reasons at all, just not known to you. We have perfectly
legitimate reasons for doing thing this.
They link
against these versions rather than the ones from any other source and
there doesnt appear to be configure options to stop this.
The reason for this, is that our customers wanted one package, and did
not want to have to hunt around the net for these. As well, we wanted to
provide specific versions known to work.
I don't know. Aren't your customers developers?
Developers hate this.
(At least all experienced linux developers i know. Including me.)
Without wanting to point fingers, whenever i see something like this it
is usually a lame excuse for not having a working build system.
Enough, it's really not about accusations but rather to tell you that i
disagree completely.
Just my 2 Eurocents
Tilman
