pcre packages
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Mon May 12 22:50:00 GMT 2003
AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don't go back here.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-05/msg00060.html
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The archives look ok but do we really need 5 of them for a 145K package?
>
> Why not delivering cygpcre.dll and cygpcreposix.dll as hardlinks inside
> of libpcre0? As long as pcre isn't breaking backward compatibility,
> that should be ok. And the docs could be part of the devel package,
> I guess. This would drop the packages to 3 + src.
Trust me, bite the bullet now. That way, you'll have fewer problems
when (if) pcre-5.0 breaks compatibility. Arguably, ALL packages that
provide DLLs and have *any* possibility of API changes should be
packaged this way.
After all, Red Hat does, for most -src.rpm's that provide libraries.
Ditto Debian. Splitting is good.
Splitting upon initial contribution is even better, because it avoids
the upgrade hell that these five packages are necessary to work around,
in order to get to the state of goodness that is 'split packages'.
--Chuck
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