Re: Help wanted: simple tasks

Tiger!P wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:37:30PM +0100, Andreas Niederl wrote:
>> Håkan Kvist wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> library: libmsn
>>> version in centerim:
>>> current version: 3.2
>>> current status: activly beeing developed
>>> homepage: http://libmsn.bdash.net.nz/
>>> The files AUTHORS, COPYING, Changelog, INSTALL, NEWS, README are all
>>> empty =>
>>> this is bad since all files should be imported to the centerim
>>> repository imho
>> It could also be done the other way around, externalizing actively
>> maintained libraries and requiring them (or specific versions of them).
> 
> When you require external libraries, it will be harder to track down
> problems. And when the occure in the external libraries, you can't fix
> them as easily as when you supply those libs with the own sources.

Well, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. You could only support
certain versions of the used libraries, so the users have to check their
problems also with those before leaving the debugging work to the
developers.
Fixing libraries with an active and cooperative upstream may be more
efficient than trying to solve things alone IMHO.
Of course, if a lib is unmaintained or has a very lazy maintainer,
inclusion is still an option.


Regards,
Andi
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