Augie Fackler <r...@durin42.com> writes: >> On Dec 1, 2016, at 17:29, Sean Farley <s...@farley.io> wrote: >> >> Augie Fackler <r...@durin42.com> writes: >> >>>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 17:07, Sean Farley <s...@farley.io> wrote: >>>> >>>> Augie Fackler <r...@durin42.com> writes: >>>> >>>>>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 08:53, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Fedora guidelines: All packages whose upstreams allow them to be built >>>>>> against system libraries must be built against system libraries. >>>>>> >>>>>> So if zstd could become a standard system library it would have to be >>>>>> unbundled. >>>>> >>>>> That should be possible some day, but today we're depending on an as-yet >>>>> unstable API that requires static linking against a specific version of >>>>> the library. Is that sufficient to prevent unbundling for now? >>>> >>>> Well, that's problematic for me since I've already added zstd as a >>>> system lib in MacPorts (under the, I believe, fair assumption) that this >>>> would be easy to override and link against. >>> >>> It won't hurt anything to have it there, it just won't help you until zstd >>> stabilizes their API and we can get on the stable API. >>> >>> It was a fair assumption, except for all the discussion both here and on >>> indygreg's patches which made it clear that it wasn't ;) >> >> I don't understand why there isn't a switch to enable this? > > I'm not sure what "this" is - if "this" is "using zstd at all" then yes, I > believe that's in there. If it's "using a system zstd instead of the vendored > one" that's *technically infeasible* with the current stable zstd API. The > wire format is stable, but the API is still under some amount of development > and they're being careful.
Then I don't think zstd is ready to be used. If it's not ready, then it's not ready. I'm a bit sad but unless I can link with the system provided zstd, then this is a no-go for me. >> When I read >> the patches, I thought that was the goal? I'm a bit disappointed in this >> situation now and retract my support of vendoring zstd. > > If it's that worrisome, have MacPorts ship hg without zstd - that'll always > be fine. I'm afraid I'll have to do that. I'm a bit worried with how fast this was pushed through and how many other distros will turn off zstd. _______________________________________________ Mercurial-packaging mailing list Mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-packaging
