2009/7/6 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > Don't do this. If you must, build scintilla as static libraries in its > own package. Then follow the Guidelines related to static libraries for > linking MySQL Workbench against it. The Guidelines for static linking > were designed to make it as easy as possible for packages consuming > static libraries to watch for problems in the libraries and do rebuilds > whenever that occurred. Bundling, OTOH, makes it easy for applications > to carry old versions of buggy libraries around for a long time. > >> Geany is another such application. >> > Yeap, having to track the problems with a single library in multiple > applications is one of the reasons not to bundle even if we just build > it as a static library. Yeah, fully agreed. There's some resistance upstream though, eg. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2488121&group_id=2439&atid=352439 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
