On Sunday, September 18, 2016 10:51:16 AM CDT Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > but it is in conflict with the well-established standard way > > of how libraries are distributed in Debian. > > This is incorrect. Header-only libraries are present in the Debian > archive, such as libboost-dev or libeigen3-dev. A -dev package does > not automatically have an accompanying shlib package.
True. But as Joachim later pointed out: -dev packages do typically provide a ready-to-use library -- whether it be header-only or accompanied (by dependency) with link libraries. In fact, we did previously distribute a compiled Google Test -- until I came across the upstream recommendation to not do so. So in the past, the name libgtest-dev was much more in keeping with traditional practices. In hindsight, I probably should have just changed the package name. But at the very least it could be more clearly labelled. I agree with that much and I do apologize for not acting on this bug report. > This has nothing to do with libgtest-dev being deceptive, but with you > failing to understand how modern integration of GTest with CMake is > supposed to happen in accordance with upstream recommendations. I don't think there's any need to call out perceived personal failings. > Modern integration uses ExternalProject_Add to fetch the gtest source, > [...] I did not know about this technique, so I learned something. Thanks! Best, -Steve
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