> On Jan 27, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Phil Sorber <sor...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 9:18:49 AM James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'd like to establish a consistent policy for build dependencies.
>> Currently, we have a number of required dependencies that the build
>> platform is expected to provide, some more that we bundle but are not (yet)
>> required, and some that are strictly optional.
>> 
>> Required platform dependencies:
>>        - openssl
>>        - pcre
>>        - tcl
>>        - xml2 or expat
>> 
>> Bundled (not required) dependencies:
>>        - libck
>>        - lua
>> 
>> I propose that there's no real distinction between these two sets, so we
>> should unbundle the bundled dependencies. If we want to persist with
>> bundled dependencies, then I think we need a new methodology for deciding
>> which dependencies should be bundled, and a better mechanism for actually
>> bundling them.
>> 
>> 
> The reason for bundling those two was that there wasn't ubiquitous platform
> support for them. We could not rely on a good version on every platform we
> currently support. And at least for libck, the intent was to eventually
> unbundle it as we were able to deprecate the platforms that did not support
> it.

So following this reasoning we should also bundle spdylay?

J

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