Mato, was this policy documented somewhere? If so, where please. If not, why not? We work by written contract not private agreement. Thanks.
-Pieter On Feb 4, 2012 3:33 AM, "Martin Lucina" <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] said: > > I also asked a question earlier that didn't seem to get answered: what > is the > > attitude introducing a dependence on a foreign library? (Source can be > included > > in zmq without licence issues). In this case, Judy, since that > determines the overhead. > > I'd been meaning to answer this, but got swamped by all the other emails > :-) > > The policy that we followed with Martin Sustrik while maintaining ZeroMQ > was to avoid external dependencies where possible. Any external dependency > creates a burden on users, distributors (Debian, etc.) and maintainers of > the depending project. > > The major exception was OpenPGM, which got packaged with libzmq both > because originally we used a specific version, and because a significant > part of our target user base are people who want to use PGM multicast. > > A major part of software development (IMHO) is knowing what to keep "out" > just as much as what to put "in". Keeping the libzmq core lean & mean > follows this principle. > > Regarding Judy, I had a brief look at the website, and grabbed the code. > The download is a ~1MB tarball, and a quick count of the "src" directory > gives: > > $ find . -type f | xargs wc -l > [...] > 29314 total > > Doing the same for libzmq master gives: > > 20352 total > > So, if it were my decision, I would need to consider the benefit of Judy > arrays vs. the cost of including 29000 lines of code (more than libzmq > core!) as a dependency. > > Of course, there is no such policy now, so feel free to submit a patch! > > -mato > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > >
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