minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review
Nicholas Wourms
nwourms@netscape.net
Thu Jun 12 19:43:00 GMT 2003
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
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