[bind10-dev] address dependency problems for beta/release

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:22:05AM -0800, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> - include boost tar ball in bind10 tar ball

Repeating just for those not available in the call yesterday. This might be a
good idea, but we should prefer the OS-installed version (and fallback to the
bundled one). I know some distributions patch their software because they have
some incompatibilities. Also, having the same software twice on the system is
annoying.

> - introduce libdns++-only build mode (for those who don't need to run
>   BIND 10 servers, and there is indeed such a user).  this mode
>   wouldn't require log4cplus or sqlite3, and maybe not even Python.

I don't know. I think the python bindings do sound nice for people who want to
experiment. I guess there'll be a lot of people that want to try something small
and C++ is needlessly heavy-weight for that.

> - introduce null-encryption mode and/or allowing other crypt lib such
>   as openssl (to exclude botan)

And similar for the logging framework? We did experiment with some other library
at the beginning (and we actually had the bindings written) and backed off
because it didn't work on some systems. Could we provide an option to pick one
of them on the systems that have both? (I know gentoo had the other one, but I
had to install log4cplus by hand).

> - use python2 instead of python3

That doesn't sound very easy. But I don't know how annoying this is to people,
since I use python3 for several years already.

With regards

-- 
Hallowed be the zeroes and ones

Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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