GSoC -- Possible projects

[Aurélien Aptel]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de> wrote:
> Some further explanation of build-system changes would be good to see.
> Namely, do you plan to make libarchive a hard dependency for smbclient,
> or could you have smbclient archive support conditional, based on
> whether the libarchive development headers are present at build time.

What is preferable? I personally think adding libarchive as a hard
dependency is simpler: I'm planning on rewriting the module not
providing an optional replacement.

> Any build-infrastructure changes are further complicated by the fact
> that Samba currently allows for waf and Autotools (source3 only) based
> builds.

Yes, the build system alone is pretty complex...