On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 11:40 +0000, Gordon Ball wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 09:48:52AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 17:13 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:57 PM Gordon Ball <gor...@chronitis.net> wrote: > > > > src:zeromq3 and libzmq3-dev currently embed headers from the separate > > > > cppzmq repository. However, the associated cmake files are not included, > > > > which means when trying to build downstream projects which use cppzmq > > > > and cmake, it's necessary to hack the buildsystem or embed the cmake > > > > files from cppzmq. > > > These are different projects and should be packaged differently. As > > > czmq is packaged by Luca, I think cppzmq should be packaged by him as > > > well. But let's hear what he says. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Laszlo/GCS > > > > Hi, > > > > Given it's just a header, I don't think it's necessary to do anything > > complicated - there's nothing to build and there's no dependencies to > > track. No point in having separate packages or cmake files or whatnot - > > #include is all a user needs. > > > > The CMake files aren't _needed_, but they're provided upstream and > downstream projects that use cppzmq and CMake expect them to be there, > and it feels like an unnecessary friction to need to patch/override the > buildsystem of downstream projects to get round us shipping the headers > but not the other parts of the cppzmq distribution.
Sorry I still don't follow, why does the downstream build system need to be patched/overriden? Again, it's just a header. There's nothing to build - just install the package, #include and it's good to go. > As observed, I don't know ZMQ that well, so I'm not trying to force > anything if you really don't think this is good idea, but from my > perspective either including the cmake files in libzmq3-dev or splitting > cppzmq into a separate source package which ships them would seem to be a > usability improvement. > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > Luca Boccassi > >
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