Hi,

On Thursday 21 May 2015 08:54:18 Alf Birger Rustad wrote:
> First of all, I also want to thank Joakim for bringing up the discussion 
> before making changes. My thoughts are as follows:
> > Currently my focus is on removing the sibling-build features.
> 
> This was discussed at the OPM meeting, and my recollection from the
> discussion on sibling builds is -a majority of developers use the feature
> -it does not add significant complexity when determining which
> libraries/binaries are actually linked -it is not a significant maintenance
> burden to keep
> With the conclusion that we keep it.

I remember this discussion a bit differently, but that probably does not matter 
too much. (as far as I remember it, the conclusion was that we remove sibling 
builds, but that some "meta-build" tool gets added before this is done.)

From my personal perspective, the main benefit of getting rid of the sibling 
build feature is that -- as far as I can see -- sibling builds make it hard to 
have a distributed build system, i.e., that every OPM module ships its own 
build system modules. In turn, I think that this is a strict necessity for the 
buildsystem to be even considered for external projects to be used. 

cheers
  Andreas

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