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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:47:16 -0400
From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: standalone libixp
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:38:14PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>I've just finished my standlone libixp package (forked from wmii).

There's no need to 'fork' it from wmii, it's always been=20
available standalone, the latest snapshot just happens to be=20
distributed with wmii.

>It's an completely standalone package with no deps (beside libc),
>provides pkg-config descriptor and shared library. Include files
>are installed in their own subdir ($INCLUDEDIR/9p-ixp).

I really see no need to create a separate include directory. =20
There are only 2 include files, ixp.h and ixp_fcall.h (the 3 new=20
ones for the threading stubs don't count. There's really no need=20
for them).

I really don't see the need for pkg-config either. It's designed=20
for libraries that are so insanely complex that you need helpers=20
just to build or link against them:

%pkg-config --cflags --libs gnome
-DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/local/include/gnome-1.0 -I/usr/local/include -=
I/usr/local/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/local/include/gtk12 -I/usr/local/=
include/glib12 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -L/usr/local/lib -lgnome -lgnomesuppor=
t -lintl -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lglib-12 =20

As for the shared object, I just don't see the point. If you=20
provide it as a shared object, then people will use the shared=20
object rather than statically linking it. I can't see any point=20
in that. It's tiny, on purpose, and is meant to be statically=20
linked. The only case where I see a point in a shared object is=20
when it's used to interface with an interperater, and I'm not=20
sure that justifies installing one by default.

Lastly, you wrote a gmakefile.

--=20
Kris Maglione

In a hierarchical system, the rate of pay varies
inversely with the unpleasantness and difficulty
of the task.

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