Hi all,
Upstream SuiteSparse has started to use cmake in earnest to configure
and install individual component. This currently in beta to which I have
given feedback.
There are several issue with suitesparse as it is. Right now we split it
using a script that I forked from an original work from bicatali
(Sebastien Fabbro).
The main issue is that upstream only release a meta package and we split
it. The version of the meta package and of suitesparseconfig increase
but for the other components some increase and some not.
Issues:
* on one occasion a package was changed without version bump
* version numbers of each packages are stored in two locations in most
of the packages. And occasionally they do not match, the higher one
should be kept but this is a pain in the automation.
With the current upstream packaging I'd rather move to using the
upstream meta package tarball for everything. Mainly because some
components are currently shared. Splitting would mean copying the
components as needed in individual packages.
Which also leaves us with the version numbering issue. Do we keep
individual versions or switch everything to the version number of the
meta package? The later is convenient and make sure the tarball has some
version relating tot he ebuild version number.
It is also a bit redundant for packages that don't evolve much.
But it is very convenient and I have used the later for my current
development.
Find$pkg.cmake files are shipped at install time, but not .pc files. The
current ones are produced by the splitting script.
I identified only one downstream package that uses the .pc files:
cvxopt. Removing the use of suitesparse .pc files in cvxopt is
straightforward and should lead to any issues as suitesparse doesn't put
anything in weird location of use sub folders that need to be known at
compile time.
I am very of the mind that we should stop the splitting. Versionning of
the individual packages is a bit in the air but following the meta
package versioning is the easiest maintenance wise.
Opinion, suggestions?
Cheers,
François
