[bind10-dev] Precommit hook blocks third-party code

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:31:33PM +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> Personally, I don't like to have our local copy of third party
> libraries in our repository.  I'd consider ASIO a very special case,
> and I still think there's a better way even for ASIO than having an
> unpacked copy of it in the repository.  This is probably a good timing
> to explore alternative (and IMO cleaner) approaches.

I do not like it much either, but I was asked to do it this way, so I did. I
think it is possible to throw the 2 commits away and merge only the rest.

> Some possibilities:
> - automatically download a tar ball at build time

This has a problem, it will fail if no internet connection.

> - assuming this is not an absolutely mandatory feature, make it
>   optional and use it only when already installed (with some
>   appropriate wrapper layer).  With this approach it's the user's
>   responsibility to install the library.

It already works this way, because it is only renaming of processes and not all
platforms are supported by the library anyway. I could add a warning at the end
of the configure script in that case?

What do other people think?

Thank you

-- 
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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