On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > There is no intent to hoard. From talking to developers on this > project I get the sense that they want to upstream patches more than > was done previously. But contributing a patch is no guarantee that it > will be integrated by the other project in a timely manner. Simply > having it checked in by the 3rd party component, but not yet in their > release, is also not optimal, for stability and supportability > reasons. Release schedules don't always sync up.
Much more of a Java developer than a C++ developer, so I don't know how C++ linking is managed. In Java you give a list of .jar files for the loader to use, in order of preference; hence you can "patch" a class in a 3rd party library by supplying your own version of that class in a library that's examined before the 3rd party library. Does C++ have something similar? Such that you can supply both the original untouched 3rd party binary library and your own binary library that only contains the modified code? Don
