From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mongodb. Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 02:06:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87ziscx8n5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fh1rvkn.fsf@gnu.org> <87pouqx1sq.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvocpj2j.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awIR3-0001re-OP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:07:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awIQs-0005ed-43 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:06:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mvocpj2j.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Hello Ludo’, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> My reasoning for keeping the third-party libraries in the tarball was >> simply because upstream made that choice. Unbundling can and probably >> will introduce differences in the behavior of the output with other >> distributions and their official binaries. > > When unbundling, we need to make sure to use compatible library > versions, and then it should be fine. Yes, I need to look into the differences (if there are any) of the bundled libraries. (I know they found significant performance improvements with their own implementation of malloc()). >> I will try to unbundle these libraries from the release tarball. This >> could take some time though. > > Did you manage to make progress? I know unbundling can often be tedious > and thankless… Thanks for the reminder. I haven't had time to look at this. Will try to make progress on this in the next week. Kind regards, Roel Janssen