From: ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>)
Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP).
Date: 16 May 2002 17:38:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r8kb8xyw.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020516193535.A26480@gas-o>
"Jeff Read" <bitwize@snet.net> writes:
>
> I once heard a statistic that said the Gnucash project, for
> instance, has some 60 lib dependencies.
It is pretty nasty, but I believe a major reason is that it uses later
versions of various libraries than are common, _and_ that said
libraries are under heavy development, and thus the APIs change.
Hence it requires a slew of downloads to work.
OTOH, programming against the older libraries would be hell. That's
why I use guile 1.4 for travtrack. The unfortunate side effect is
that this means that it will not compile for most folks.
> Ideally, as you said, we'd provide an option to allow the user to
> opt out of GMP usage, hopefully with no loss in functionality.
Well, they'd have to lose some functionality--or else what's the point
of GMP in the first place?
--
Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
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2002-05-16 15:35 ` The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP) Rob Browning
[not found] ` <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-16 16:44 ` Greg Troxel
2002-05-16 17:01 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <3CE3E5D8.A30C3197@pacbell.net>
2002-05-16 17:12 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <87elgcqanm.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-21 19:55 ` Carl R. Witty
[not found] ` <v4j661hi8ce.fsf@bogomips.newtonlabs.com>
2002-05-21 23:44 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 17:21 ` Jeff Read
[not found] ` <20020516132133.A24385@gas-o>
2002-05-16 17:22 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <877km4qa7z.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-16 17:42 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-05-16 20:40 ` Jeff Read
[not found] ` <20020516164045.C24385@gas-o>
2002-05-16 23:17 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <874rh7n0ng.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
2002-05-16 23:35 ` Jeff Read
[not found] ` <20020516193535.A26480@gas-o>
2002-05-16 23:38 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> [this message]
2002-05-17 1:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-17 0:02 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-28 18:56 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <rmi8z6kavqi.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
2002-05-17 11:38 ` Bill Schottstaedt
2002-05-28 18:28 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <877klouny2.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-28 18:54 ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-28 18:58 ` Bill Gribble
2002-06-03 13:33 ` Greg Troxel
2002-06-03 22:25 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 11:22 ` Greg Troxel
2002-06-04 19:12 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:02 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <3CF3D274.978637CD@pacbell.net>
2002-05-28 19:23 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <87sn4ct6tj.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-28 19:39 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <3CF3DCDD.D0CB1662@pacbell.net>
2002-05-28 19:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:54 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
[not found] ` <87d6vgt5dx.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-28 20:16 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <3CF3E5A3.623870F7@pacbell.net>
2002-06-01 16:01 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <877klj0yzu.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-06-01 18:06 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-06-03 22:40 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 14:38 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
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