Or USE_LOCALLY_INSTALLED_LIBS even.
On 23/02/2011 3:04 PM, Erin Mallory wrote:
"> The real distinction, I think, is whether or not you are using
> _installed_ libraries. "
how about USE_INSTALLED_LIBS then? or possibly USE_LOCAL_LIBS
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:56:23 -0500
> From: o...@lindenlab.com
> To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Is 'STANDALONE' confusing?
>
> On 2011-02-21 9:38, Boroondas Gupte wrote:
> > On 02/21/2011 03:28 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:
> >> > If we are going to change it, the replacement term should, in
addition
> >> > to being more accurately descriptive of what it does, be an
affirmative
> >> > term - don't suggest any 'NO_*" replacements.
> > Would it be acceptable to invert the setting's semantic in order to
> > avoid a negation? I.e., STANDALONE=OFF would become NEW_SETTING=ON and
> > vice versa. That'd allow for easy-to-understand names like
> > USE_PREBUILD_LIBS or DOWNLOAD_NEEDED_DEPENDENCIES.
> >
> > Off course, the default value should be inverted together with the
> > setting's semantic, such that the default behavior does not change.
>
> Yes, I think that's best (assuming that we're going to change anything).
>
> A couple of comments on the interesting discussion....
>
> I'm not sure that any variation on 'USE_PREBUILD' quite captures the
> correct semantics, because in the new autobuild framework one way to
> work is going to be to download the project for a library you want to
> compile locally (perhaps to try a new version, or to make some patch)
> and then modify your viewer builds to use the output of that
> compilation. When you do that, you'll still be using exactly the same
> sort of prebuilt package that you would, in the default case, download
> from LL.
>
> The real distinction, I think, is whether or not you are using
> _installed_ libraries. Normally, the viewer build has only minimal
> reliance on the libs that are installed on the system itself - it puts
> the packaged libraries (which are now by default all loaded in a
> 'build-*/packages directory rather than being mixed in with the
sources).
>
> That might suggest something like USE_PACKAGED_LIBS with a default
value
> of NO/FALSE.
>
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