On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, IOhannes zmoelnig wrote:
Ben Bogart wrote:
This makes a lot of sense to me in the long run.
Mark, why was markEx merged into Gem originally?
(being not Mark, but i think:) because it was easier: some of the example-patches depend on markEX, and it would have been very complicated if you had to get another library. But of course: markEX is not really Gem, and it certainly makes sense to put it into some separated space (like the CVS, although i don't think, lot's of people will continue development for markEX (?)) But then: should i remove markEX from Gem ? (again the problem with the help-patches)
There would be a small amount of pain in the move, but I think that the CVS externals collection isn't really a lib anymore, but a standard part of a distro, especially since it now compiles on Linux, MacOS X and Windows. Its also already package-ized for Linux and MacOS X, and Windows shouldn't be too hard to do.
I have a dream of all external objects without lib deps in one easy to install package on all platforms. We are well on the way to this being a reality.
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