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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:18:35AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote about 'Re: Moving basic libs to a new repo and release them as a separate package':
> tridge at samba.org wrote:
> > Just to double check, you realise the proposal was 
> > that the various Samba3 trees would point directly at
> > a master tdb and talloc repository, so commits by (for
> > example) Simo and me would be immediately and automatically
> > reflected in the SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE tree?

> > If thats really want you want then I guess we can do 
> > it, it just surprises me a bit. I thought you might have
> > wanted to double check things before accepting them into
> > the Samba3 code, in case we missed a unexpected consequence
> > of a change.

> > Or did I misunderstand Simos proposal?
> I don't even really want it in the tree.  I want to link
> against a .so file.  I want to write against an API.
> I want a versioned library that I can use.  I want a black
> box.

Much as I (strongly) agree, this would mean dropping support for 
a few platforms - Stratos VOS and some of the other older unices. Is that 
an issue? 

[...]

> Samba's interfaces internally are too easy for use to change
> at will.  We are the only consumers.  There is no pain in
> change.  If we ever want to support consumers of our code
> other than us, we have to IMO start with making ourselves
> a consumer and placing an artificial barrier that says
> "Interfaces are designed.  Think before you code."  We
> have some really good interfaces and some really bad ones.
> The good ones should get reused by others and the bad ones
> should get replaced.

I agree. This is also one of the reasons why I think we should be
writing the (public) prototypes for our other Samba4 libraries ourselves 
(just like we already do for tdb and ldb). 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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