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
Why is that bad if that is what that upstream FOSS needs ? > less bad. Why not just require that the i-team at least not deliver Pth > compilation links, or, better, statically link Pth into GPG? This is no worse then having NSPR or the Apache run time libraries. The unfortunate state of the world is that POSIX wasn't enough and other alternate portable to many platform runtimes exist. We have to embrace that in OpenSolaris otherwise we won't get to run apps that need them. -- Darren J Moffat
