Matt Domsch wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:45:41PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Matt Domsch wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 04:54:08PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I see that sparse made it into Fedora Extras, so that 'yum install'
automatically pulls it down for me. Yay! Thanks, Matt.
Can libsparse.a and necessary includes be packaged as well?
.a or .so? The .so just got dropped from the standard sparse 'make
Doesn't matter to me... Something is better than nothing. With
sparse's license, .a is no big deal.
Fedora Extras strongly discourages shipping and using .a if only to
ensure that any security issue uncovered can be addressed without
always rebuilding all downstream dependent apps. Not too likely a
problem with a tool like sparse, but always a concern.
The .so would need to start being versioned, and care paid to bump the
version as the ABIs change.
Or alteratively we could recognize that sparse is a bit of an unusual
lib. With the library likely to be changing rapidly, caring about ABIs
at this early stage probably isn't in anybody's best interests.
Jeff
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