Re: Stop shipping static libraries for NetBSD

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:00:31AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:37 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> >     At the risk of suggesting a compromise which noone likes, we
> >     could put the .a files into a separate 'static dev' set which
> >     sysinst sets to not-installed by default...
> 
> This partially defeats the purpose.  The main reason for doing this is  
> to move the ABI compatibility boundary out into userspace where it  
> belongs.  I want the message to be "if you do this, you are on your  
> own... we make no guarantees about binary compatibility", and  
> providing an easy way to install the static libraries dilutes the  
> message.

I strongly object to this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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