GSoC -- Possible projects

[Andreas Schneider]

On Monday, May 06, 2013 17:30:04 David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2013 17:20:09 +0200
> 
> Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My preference would be to have the libarchive dependency optional, such
> that smbclient does not advertise or accept archival arguments when
> built without libarchive.

I agree.

> This could of course be left until later, starting simple would be a
> good idea :).

I agree too :)



	-- andreas