On Mon 17 Dec 2012 04:47:50 Oliver Eichler escribió: > Hi Lisandro, Hi Oliver! > I do not really understand what's the problem. The library is linked > statically
That's the problem :-) Allow me to explain it. > and won't conflict with any other copy in the system. It's > small, thus I think the footprint is bearable. And usually it's not > installed on other systems. Thus it would be just another lousy dependency > to take care of. Especially on Windows and OS X. But even in Linux there > are many users that are overexerted by too many dependencies, if it comes > to compiling the software on their own. > > That's why it is part of the 3rd party libs in QLGT. To move it from there > will make life not better just more compicated. While your reasons are good, embedded copies are not good for distros ([0], third paragraph). Imagine that there is a security bug in qextserialport, we need to find *every* embedded copy of the lib, fix it, build it and re upload. While I come from Debian, the problem also exists on Red Hat too [1]. While normally we do suggest upstream to not embed copies of another projects in the tarball, there is another intermediate way to solve this: add a way to use an external lib instead of compiling and linking the embedded copy. Please do not heasitate to mail me back if you have further ideas/doubts. [0] <http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Source_only_tarball> [1] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872883> Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- Evite los parámetros estáticos. Si son inevitables, haga que el emisor y el receptor negocien un valor. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, de su libro "Computer Networks" Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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