> Would it be a good idea reduce the overall build complexity by > splitting each agent into its own install package? For example, > libextractor is only used by the pkgmetagetta module, which most > people probably don't care about anyway.
The Debian packaging is already designed with this in mind. Right now I have the agents all together in one package, but splitting them out (and splitting their dependencies, and making some optional) would be pretty easy. The other thing I have allowed for is out-of-tree agents. We provide a fossology-dev package that has the stuff needed so you could build and install agents from a separate source tree. Right now (AFAIK) only the fossology project is writing agents, but I always assumed maybe people would want to be able to write and distribute their own. Of course we encourage these folks to work with us to get them included in the main fossology tree, but if they have things they'd prefer to keep to themselves it is possible to do that. -- Matt Taggart tagg...@fossology.org _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
