[Fedora-packaging] Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-12-11 17:00 - 18:25 UTC)

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:38:52AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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> > On 12/12/2014 03:18 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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> > >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:04:19AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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> > >> Agreed, a static library is a waste of time. What about a normal
> > >> shared library? Do you think patches to do that would be accepted?
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> > > How does a shared library solve any of those problems?
> > I wonder why I have to explain this ;)
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> > It would concentrate/centralize a distributed, undetectable origin of
> > bug into one point of maintenance and development.
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> It wouldn't solve the problem of not wanting to offer an API to third-parties...
Hi,

I understand why upstream did not want to do that, but current
situation is not very attractive either. The same piece of library-like
code is duplicated in two places in gnome, in cinnamon, and we are talking
about duplicating in a fourth place.

FPC wants to have it split out and shared. gvc has the last commmit in
git 13 months ago. Shouldn't be that much of an issue to split it out.

Zbyszek