Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:07:53PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> I agree with all of your points. >> >> However, we've already established a precedent in many other cases that >> FOSS cases can integrate without necessarily taking the same steps that >> we would require of software developed internally. > > But surely there are limits. Having the GNU Pth library on the system > for other apps to link with is bad. Using the GNU Pth library in GPG is > less bad. Why not just require that the i-team at least not deliver Pth > compilation links, or, better, statically link Pth into GPG?
I'm sure there are other bits of FOSS software that use the GNU Pth library. While I too would like to see software we ship use the better threading library, isn't at least justifiable that GNU Pth be shipped to make it easier to compile and use FOSS that is not provided by Sun? Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
