Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (83 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Lorenzo Villani wrote:

> I'm new to this mailing list. My name's Lorenzo and I'm packaging the 
> zypp package management stack on Fedora. I'm close to get it included in 
> the next release (Fedora 10) but I have a question.. I noticed that 
> sat-solver builds only static libraries by default (libsatsolver.a 
> libappsatsolver.a). One requirement on Fedora is to avoid inclusion of 
> static libraries except in some exceptional cases. So the question is: 
> can the whole software stack be built using dynamically linked 
> libraries?

The reason for currently only building a static library is that we want to 
be relatively sure about the API we expose.  For a shared lib we have to 
either maintain the API for all times or increase the so-version.  The 
latter is ugly, and the former is difficult when you are still developing 
the thing.

I think we meanwhile reached a point where we can start providing a 
shared lib.  I would suggest that you don't do that on your own for now, 
though, and instead wait until it's properly integrated into the build 
including a symbol version definition.


Ciao,
Michael.
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