On 5/17/21 1:17 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I still think the best solution is to put much of the gnulib stuff
into an installable gnulib-dev package that would be required by the
bootstrap script. I proposed that about 2 decades ago, but we're still
spending gobs of compute and wall clock resources recomputing the same
stuff. :(
The problem is what to do if your project requires a newer version of
some gnulib file.
We already have that problem. Every now and then I try to build some
project for some reason or another, but it turns out it needs a more
recent libwhatever-dev installed. I install that, but _it_ needs
libsomethingelse-dev, but my version isn't up-to-date enough. Or I can't
find it at all. An out-of-date gnulib-dev wouldn't be anything new.
OTOH, I'm retired, less quixotic and mostly use computers for email,
Zoom and PhotoShop, which won't even run on Linux. (I've tried
emulation, no go. :)
Cheers - Bruce
