On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:52:12PM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Bernard, > > I am not saying: drop the idea. I am just asking: what do we win if, > with the exception of expat, none of the external packages is widely > available in the "right" version? Is it worth the effort?
So long as we're using the documented APIs and not modifying the library source anywhere in general I don't see this being a major problem, we just need to make sure we document required version numbers well. For distributions where these libraries are missing then whoever has rolled the ganglia package should be able to deal with the support libraries too, and the gain from using distributed libraries is so huge that I think it's worth it. The other option is that ganglia distributes 2 source tarballs, the main source and the support libraries. TBH I can't think of many major OSS packaged that distribute their source tarballs with so many 3rd party support libraries included. Stu -- >From the prompt of Stu Teasdale It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
