Hi!
Waiting for your input :)
Alon

On 2/14/08, Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Martin Paljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >  > 4. openct, pcsc and nsplugins features are disabled by default.
>  >  I don't think it's a good idea to by default disable most used reader
>  >  interfaces by default, as I'd expect most software to behave nicely
>  >  after a ./configure; make; make install cycle. Have not tried it on
>  >  Linux, but we might include some special handling code for Mac as Mac
>  >  is a pretty defined platform. a ./configure; make; make install cycle
>  >  could work on osx as well flawlessly.
>
>
> I don't like packages that enable optional features automatically.
>  Users/packagers should choose what they wish and enable dependency 
> explicitly.
>  In this case, nsplugin seldom used anyway, and there is not much sense in
>  enabling both pcsc and openct.
>  And if the user has for some strange reason openct installed, does it mean
>  the result of OpenSC compilation should depend on it?
>
>  I truly think users are able to choose, and I am sure distro packagers will
>  enable the features by the dependency of their packages.
>
>
>  >  > 9. Add export files to each library in order to export only required
>  >  > symbols. Windows native build may use these files instead of scanning
>  >  > objects' symbols.
>  >  I should investigate this. While at it, we could also 'break' the
>  >  windows build, drop libltdl dependance and have a wrapper that uses
>  >  native win32 API calls on windows and libltdl on other platforms.
>
>
> I also think that Windows does not need libltdl... Is there any reason to
>  use it at *NIX? I don't think .la files are used anyway...
>  But this change can be done later...
>
>
>  >  Great work and I hope we can release the next version with a new build
>  >  system and other generic improvements :)
>
>
> Thanks!
>  Waiting for your test results.
>
> Alon.
>
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