The Wrapper Project

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Dec 2 15:23:43 MST 2013


On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:43:22PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:21:04PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:15:08PM -0500, Simo wrote:
> > > 
> > > The point is that we are not good at maintaining external code once you
> > > suck it in the tree.
> > 
> > IMHO The point Simo is making above is the most important
> > one in this discussion.
> > 
> > We have pulled in external code, Heimdal, popt, zlib
> > and WE DON'T KEEP IT UP TO DATE.
> 
> That is a different class of libraries. These three libraries were internal to
> Samba; they're more akin to e.g. tdb, talloc. tevent or ldb.

Heimdal I'm willing to concede as we needed to make
changes to make the AD-DC. But are we done there ?
Shouldn't we be pushing upstream ?

popt and zlib ? I don't think so.

popt came from Red Hat, and zlib:

http://www.zlib.net/

Jeremy.


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