On 8 June 2006 at 11:54, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alexey Petrenko wrote: > > Mark, > > > > I understand your concerns about static linking of the large number > > of the libraries... We thought about this too... > > > > But we decided that for now it is the best way: we have to manage > > only few libraries inside the Harmony deploy directory... Which is > > changing its contents so often :)
Alexey, as I said, I understand that this was a pragmatic choice and we've made similar choices elsewhere. > I was holding my tongue on marks post I think we agree? > - lets not waste too much time discussing the dependencies. Certainly > for distributions, we'll bundle them in where appropriate (like a > tarball), or not (like an rpm where the deps can be specified as part > of the delivery system) Yeah. That's reasonable. It might actually need a little support from the build system(s) to handle the 'deps' behaviour - because we are statically linking things that would be better linked dynamicall - but I'm happy to help with that when the time comes. Regards, Mark. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
