On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:19:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Saturday 2019-09-21 14:20, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > > > https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/ > > > >The upstream repo doesn't contain the infrastructure for building or > >installing libraries. There was a 1.0 release made in 2015, but there > >have been a number of bug-fixes committed since. Therefore, add the > >latest upstream source: > > > src/linenoise.c | 1201 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > That seems like a recipe to end up with stale code. For a distribution, > it's static linking worsened by another degree. > > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries?rd=Packaging:Bundled_Libraries) I thought this is like mini-gmp.c? Are distributors packaging this as a library?
