Moving basic libs to a new repo and release them as a separate package

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:55:24PM -0500, simo wrote about 'Moving basic libs to a new repo and release them as a separate package':
> In the Samba Project we created a number of tools that are not only very
> useful and shared between our branches, but also interesting for other
> projects.

> I would like to propose we move the current ldb, tdb and talloc
> libraries to a new branch named samba-base-libs or something like that
> and release them as .so/.a libraries. Then make our Samba trees check
> for them to be installed on the system and require them to build and run
> them.

> Being a separate project I see some advantages:
> - Other projects will find it easier to adopt the software as they will
>   find it easier to provide it to their user in a tiny package without
>   requiring them to install samba
> - More testing/development coming from other projects
> - Better sharing inside the various team trees, fixes flows into the
>   separate libraries and we do not risk to miss fixes from one branch
>   to the other
> - Stabilization of the interfaces

> I think tdb and talloc are mature good candidates, ldb is still under
> being actively worked on but there is a lot of interest in it outside
> the samba team so providing it as a separate tool even in beta stages
> seem good thing to me.

> I'd like comments on this proposal, from all the interested parties.
I think more codesharing between Samba 3, Samba 4
and other projects. However, some things that come to mind that might
be problematic:

 - What to do about platforms that don't have libraries (shared nor
   static)?

I guess the number of platforms that don't have either of those is so
small these days that we could simply abort support for such
platforms. I think Stratos VOS is probably the only one.
   
 - How would this change the actions a user has to perform to compile
   Samba? Would it simply mean an extra build step?

We could perhaps automate this a bit and include these libraries in
the Samba3 and Samba4 tarballs so only developers will have to check
them out separetely.


Cheers,

Jelmer
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