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

[Michael Sweet]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> ...
>>> 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? 

There is no reason to not create both static and shared libraries,
so that platforms without shared library support can still use a
common library...

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