On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Marc [iso-8859-1] Lavall�e wrote:
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, guenter geiger wrote:
What are the arguments against single externals ?
Mathieu Bouchard replied :
tiresome when creating a family of very related externals makes it more difficult to share code between related externals may take more RAM may take more filehandles
Building all externals as single files is not that important. What's important is to have and use the externals. I was able build most of the CVS externals, which is more than what is in the build/src directory.
Thats great, can this work be included in CVS ?
There should be maintainers for each platform (Mac,Windows,Linuxes), that would share information on difficult to build externals. This effort would help the community more than trying to fit all submitted externals into an ideal framework.
You are right. I volunter for linux, I will put the pd-externals package into Debian as soon as we are done with the work.
Can those people that want to have a lib instead of single externals tell me so ? Not that I am convinced by the arguments, but we have to go ahead :)
Guenter