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Re: FC18 status

To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FC18 status
From: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:40:41 +1000
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On 15/05/13 12:24, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]  I think this is the same as Jeff's issue on SuSE ... if there
is no libmicrohttpd [...]

What would people think about putting (back) in a snapshot of
libmicrohttpd sources under src/pmwebd, for use only on platforms
where the OS doesn't supply libmicrohttpd?

Seems like a "make work" project to me. Most of the plaftorms we care about have the support, this will become more so over time one suspects.

On the down side there is the additional code maintenance burden (unless you're suggesting a once off snapshot that is never refreshed ... that sounds like an RFE just waiting to bite down the track).

As a general rule (and following what we've done in the past for Mac OS X, AIX, BSD, Windows, ...), I'd prefer to see the configure-build-package infrastructure be robust in the absence of some platform services, so we can still build and install something useful on lots of platforms, even if there are some backwaters where not all of the PCP functionality is available.

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