Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 31 May 2008 07:38:12 +0530
"Nirbheek Chauhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) You say the benefits haven't been pointed out, while several posts
have already done so. You seem to be the only one pretending to be
unaware of them.
No no no. The benefits described would be obtained by fixing libtool.
What you get from as-needed is a half-arsed sometimes-working subset of
those benefits. as-needed is not the fix for the libtool problems.
2) The "expense of breaking things" is completely unqualified in your
post. Here's some context: "expense" is minimal since the problem is
easily fixable, and "breaking things" is the list of bugs on the
tracker bug -- 19 with most of them already having patches that just
need to be committed
And all of which are utterly pointless.
3) You say fixing libtool is the correct solution but you don't say
why or explain how. You don't give any information at all, and due to
the non-existant evidence, I am going to take the statement with a
fist of salt.
I'm assuming everyone contributing to this thread knows exactly what the
libtool problems are... But from the looks of things, plenty of people
are quite happy to jump in and yell when they don't have the slightest
clue what the root problem is, what as-needed changes, what as-needed
breaks or how as-needed is unrelated to the problem. And unfortunately,
it looks like those people are the ones that're going to be making the
decisions.
Could you explain, for the benefit of us spectators, what these libtool
problems are, and what cleaner solution you have in mind? It'd make this
whole discussion a lot more comprehensible.
--Ravi
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