It's used for collections, since none exist in c. Can it be included under contrib?
Thanks. -Jake On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah... it means that somebody downloading Thrift, expecting just > Apache-licensed code is gonna get surprised to also have to include > LGPL'd code. That's why we don't allow... no surprises for the user. > > What features of Glib are needed by this implementation? (I can't tell > since it isn't in svn...) > > Cheers, > -g > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 20:40, Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since Glib is LGPL I think there is an issue including this dependency on > > thrift. > > > > Can any PMC folks comment if this contribution is going to be possible to > > include? > > > > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html > > > > -Jake > > > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Reiss <dre...@facebook.com> wrote: > > > >> >>> - should I attach this stuff to THRIFT-582 as a massive patch? > not > >> >>> sure how well that would work, as there will still be a lot of > future > >> >>> updates. I'm happy to just continue to work on github, or use > >> something > >> >>> else if there are suggestions. > >> >> Yes, you should attach a massive patch, since that is the easiest way > >> for > >> >> us to document the history of the code. Keeping an active branch on > >> github > >> >> is also good to allow more detailed analysis of the development > process. > >> > > >> > Should we do that now, or later, once the server implementation is > >> > complete and the tests have full code coverage? > >> Either. > >> > > >
