sound distribution practices

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:42:21PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> On 04/08/2012 06:53 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:09:30AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:23:26PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:08:21PM -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote: 
> >> > Btw, this also applies to NQP bundling full source of
> >> > libtommath and dyncall.
> >> 
> >> We'll work on removing the libtomath and dyncall sources from NQP 
> >> tarballs, or make it very easy for NQP to ignore those sources.
> > 
> > Thanks. As far as I'm concerned something simple as a Configure.pl option (say,
> > --use-system-libraries) or an environment variable would do
> 
> Unfortunately from our point of view it's not that simple, because we
> have some patches to those libs; we'll try to push them upstream, but
> it'll take some time to do that and to get them all accepted.

What kind of patches? We may try to get those included in the Debian packages
for the two libraries if they are not too "excessive".

Also, I was wondering why did you choose libtommath and dynacall, instead of,
say, GMP and FFI? (I'm just curious).

Anyway, I did not hope of that change being made from one day to the other, and
I'm glad you are aware of the problem and you recognize it as something to fix.

Cheers

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