I understand for various reasons why there are packages shipped with Firebird sources used as part of its build, residing in extern folder.
I would like to request for consideration that those projects be split into their own projects within Firebird. It seems Firebird project has modified some. A while back I packaged like btyacc on Gentoo from upstream sources. It seems upstream is dead. Since then some minor changes have been made to the one in extern. My plan for now is to create packages from those within Firebird. I guess using Firebird version for the version of that stuff. I need to package and build it on its own and not have it build as part of Firebird. Some things I am able to find and package on its own. But for other things it seems like Firebird is the upstream. Like btyacc and cloop. I think there maybe 1 or 2 others, not all. Some of the others still have active upstreams and sources in Firebird are not heavily modified if at all. Anyway just something I wanted to bring up for consideration. I understand this may cause some additional difficulties in building, for development and project binary releases. Though for anyone packaging Firebird, Linux distros and others, it may make things easier. Thank you for your consideration! -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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