Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Hi, Policy reads: "All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and a static version in the lib*-dev package" I'm not too keen on providing static versions of libraries who's intent are for embedded devices. The idea, of course, for embedded devices are to have as

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Brian Nelson
"Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Policy reads: > > "All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and > a static version in the lib*-dev package" > >I'm not too keen on providing static versions of libraries who's intent are > for embedded d

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:21:45AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > "All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and a > static version in the lib*-dev package" > >I'm not too keen on providing static versions of libraries [whose] > intent [is use in] embedded devices.

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread James Troup
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The static version of a library must be compiled without the > -fPIC option. It must be placed in the development > package, normally lib*-dev, but if its size > exceeds the size of the rest of the files in the development >

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:42:40PM +, James Troup wrote: > > The static version of a library must be compiled without the > > -fPIC option. It must be placed in the development > > package, normally lib*-dev, but if its size > > exceeds the size of the rest of the files

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Allombert
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The static version of a library must be compiled without the > > -fPIC option. It must be placed in the development > > package, normally lib*-dev, but if its size > > exceeds th

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread James Troup
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the record, I *need* static libraries. Why? -- James

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josip> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:21:45AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II Josip> wrote: >> "All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package >> and a static version in the lib*-dev package" >> >> I'm not too keen

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread James Troup
Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask > people doing development to go buy a big disk. It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who would wan

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +, James Troup wrote: >Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask >> people doing development to go buy a big disk. > >It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but >bandwidt

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:16:29AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +, James Troup wrote: > >Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask > >> people doing development to go buy a big disk. > > >

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:04PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Josip> I'm not too keen on providing static versions at all. I > Josip> can't remember I last saw someone use a -dev package for > Josip> that. People usually need a -dev package for the .so file > Josip> and the .h file

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +, James Troup wrote: > It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but > bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who > would want or need static libraries in this day and age, but maybe I'm > missing something obvious

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Clint Adams
> It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but > bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who > would want or need static libraries in this day and age, but maybe I'm > missing something obvious. zsh-static needs a static libc and ncurses sash needs a st

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 06 February 2003 13:57, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask people > > doing development to go buy a big disk. > > IME it's not the disk space that's so much of an issue, it's the bandwidth! > Having to get 5 MB (all devel. stuff in

Bug#32263: Splitting cgi-bin: Make it policy?

2003-02-06 Thread Brian White
> >> >>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The original conversation I had waaay back with the webserver guys > > is that they wouldn't go ahead with these changes until it _was_ official > > policy. If you require it to be done before it becomes official policy > > the

Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

2003-02-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +, James Troup wrote: > Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask > > people doing development to go buy a big disk. > It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but > bandwid