Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-30 Thread Olivier Langlois
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 15:26 +0100, Delcypher wrote: should be down to the user and not the distro (yes I'm aware I could compile boost myself... that's what I'm doing right now but what happened to Keep it Simple? If I wanted to compile loads of stuff from scratch I'd be using Gentoo). So

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-29 Thread Dan Liew
My last reply was flippant. Apologies for that. Huhh I didn't realise clang used LLVM as a shard library. I guess my perspective is slightly skewed because I work on another LLVM based project that uses static libraries instead (the project uses an old version LLVM). However, I don't see

[arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Delcypher
Hi, Apparently I cannot post to arch-dev-public so I'm posting this here. This is a proposal for making separate packages for static libraries (with a patch for Boost C++ libraries as an example). Please see below... -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Liew

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-28 15:26:56 +0100] Delcypher: For popular packages that have can build static libraries and shared libraries, build both but put the static libraries into their own *-staticlibs package and the *-libs packages should contain only shared libraries. For example for boost you would have

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2013 16:26, schrieb Delcypher: I really don't think that completely removing static libraries from the repositories is the correct approach because it I believe the choice of whether or not to have static libraries on your system should be down to the user and not the distro This has

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Dan Liew
On 28/09/13 19:27, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2013-09-28 15:26:56 +0100] Delcypher: I am strongly against this proposal. For many reasons, including those in the page Allan pointed to, dynamic libraries should be the default on Arch systems, and they should be the only supported type of library.

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-28 22:25:55 +0100] Dan Liew: On 28/09/13 19:27, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2013-09-28 15:26:56 +0100] Delcypher: I am strongly against this proposal. For many reasons, including those in the page Allan pointed to, dynamic libraries should be the default on Arch systems, and they

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Dan Liew
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/09/13 19:32, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 28.09.2013 16:26, schrieb Delcypher: I really don't think that completely removing static libraries from the repositories is the correct approach because it I believe the choice of whether or not to have

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 2013-09-28 23:50, Dan Liew wrote: [1] 11.4.2. LLVM is a Collection of Libraries http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html My last reply was flippant. Apologies for that. However, I don't see any mention of why static libraries should supposedly be better for LLVM at the above URL. Can you

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 2013-09-28 23:50, Dan Liew wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/09/13 19:32, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 28.09.2013 16:26, schrieb Delcypher: I really don't think that completely removing static libraries from the repositories is the correct approach because it I