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?
>
In an ideal world, Solaris would include a Pth library (in order to link
and run programs that expect it) that is written to run efficiently on
Solaris (by being a very thin wrapper around libpthread).
As a bare minimum, could the project team at least file an RFE
documenting the desire to replace the Pth library with a smaller, more
efficient implementation?
Scott
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