Re: minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

cgf@redhat.com wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:51:46AM -0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>
> > libresolv is a standalone library on many unixes, for example BIND
> > installs this lib. I see no reason to include the library into newlib,
> > let's keep it standalone.
>
>
> newlib has standalone libraries now.  Putting it in newlib gets it into
> the cygwin distribution automatically.  You don't have to know that it
> has to be selected.

Yes, especially since the great EL/IX III import :-D

> Alternately, we could also make the resolver package part of the base
> distribution and/or have the cygwin package depend on it.

We should make it easier on the developer, packaging it with the rest of 
the newlib/cygwin package just makes sense.  Not to dispute this with 
anyone, but again, this is something that is core functionality in this 
day and age.  Although tenuous, I might point to Debian or RedHat or 
even MacOS X and ask: is libresolve distributed separate from the 
package the libc/libm dll is in?  I think putting it into a separate 
import/dll library makes sense and is consistent with how linux/bsd/sun 
do it.

Cheers,
Nicholas