Re: [PD] repackaging externals on Deken

On 2017-01-23 05:00, Liam Goodacre wrote:

What would be involved in forking an external

I don't think there is any good fool-proof, one-click solution.

but i do think that forking the source code for the sake of distributing is the worst solution.

i would probably:

• specify the requirements in the README
• bundle my library without any dependencies.
• as an *alternative*, bundle my library with a current version of the

3rd-party dependencies in a subfolder of the project.

• use [declare -path ...] to make these libraries usable within my

patches (but make them overridable from outside).

katja is correct that there might be unexpected behaviour if the user installed other versions of your bundled libraries. but i think that in practice this might turn out to be not such a big issue ("let's cross the bridge when we are there").

fgamsdr IOhannes