Re: Embedding SQLite

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 05:52:23AM +0200, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 05:21, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, if we use dynamic loading and then a user doesn't have it, now
> > they can't use a Lisp module -- something which has never been true before.
> 
> There are lots of image types that you cannot display if you don't
> have the libraries (which, on Windows, are dynamically loaded). How is
> that different? And how is that different of the packages that require
> external programs?

I must second John's concern here. This increasing dependency on
external libraries (which is set at build time!) tends to become a
nuisance in binary distributions. For example, in Debian, Emacs already
pulls in libdbus. Now libselinux is on the horizon. Then it's sqlite.
I'd fear it won't scale.

For me the solution will be to compile Emacs from source, but that isn't a
solution for everybody.

I haven't got a good idea either. Maybe the problem is in binary
distributions themselves.

Regards
- -- tomás
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