[Fedora-packaging] Unbundling oscpack and boost libraries under review

[Jon Ciesla]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Brendan Jones
<brendan.jones.it at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm porting supercollider (sc - an audio synthesis engine and programming
> language[1]) from CCRMA to Fedora. The source tree has a couple of bundled
> static libraries which I'm not sure meet grounds for a bundling exemption.
>
> 1. oscpack (open sound control) - the bundled version is significantly
> different from upstream. The author of sc has submitted patches but they
> were not accepted by oscpack upstream
>
> 2. boost_lockfree and boost_atomic - the sc author is the boost dev of
> boost_lockfree but not boost_atomic. Both libraries have been submitted to
> the upstream boost team for inclusion but are not yet available outside of
> trunk (lockfree has been approved but is waiting on review of atomic [2]).
> Eventually these will become part of a boost release but not for a while
> (boost 1.53 or later)
>
> Are these good grounds for exemption, or should we wait and simply let CCRMA
> host the supercollider package until they become available?

1. Probably, but I'd file an FPC ticket for further discussion.

2. Maybe.  I'm honestly not sure.  Why will getting them into upstream
take so long?

-J

> [1] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
> [2]
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ReviewScheduleLibraries#Boost.LockFree
>
>
> Brendan
>
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