On 22 January 2017 at 19:42, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 22.01.2017 19:12, NightStrike wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> NightStrike proposed to revert to the 1.2.8 release until zlib stabilizes >>> again; >>> I'm open for that, but didn't want to stay with the 1.2.10 release. >> >> I don't recall making that proposal. I thought I just suggested that >> since modern zlib now supports having a separate build and source >> directory (at least according to the December changelog: "Allow >> building zlib outside of the source directory"), you should check to >> see if the gcc build system had any hacks to accomplish the same thing >> that could now be removed. > > sorry for wrongly citing you. Please could you make the removal of zlib a > goal > for GCC 8? I may be a bit biased trying to keep the "ongoing" d/gdc merge > alive > (libgphobos requiring a target zlib). > > Matthias >
I'd certainly have no problem having zlib as external-only. The phobos library also has a dependency on curl in much the same way, but we don't bundle such in as a convenience library. But I'm sure I'm not the only user of zlib, doesn't the LTO frontend support compression? Iain.
