RC2 for third_party.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Jeremy,

Note that there already is something like iniparser in the tree, which uses the loodparm lexer but is independent of samba otherwise. See param.c

Cheers, Jelmer

On 8 August 2014 19:29:48 BST, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:49:08PM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
>> I've updated third_party to deal with the issues that were pointed
>out in
>> the last review.
>> 
>> The libraries are still removed at the end, as in previous versions.
>> 
>> I look forward to your reviews.
>> 
>>
>http://git.samba.org/?p=ira/wip.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/third_party
>
>There are a few whitespace errors which need fixing, but
>other than that you have my 'Reviewed-by:' up to the
>last patch which removes the toplevel third_party/ lib.
>
>There's a problem with that, unfortunately (much though
>this is causing my to gnash my teeth, as that's the bit
>I really wanted).
>
>Debian / Ubuntu doesn't package iniparser-dev :-). Or
>indeed initparser at all :-).
>
>Fedora does, but the attitude of the Debian devs is
>that iniparser is the spawn of the devil, and should
>never be packaged for Debian.
>
>Looking at the iniparser code, it's hard to argue :-).
>
>So I'll take it upon myself to remove the iniparse
>code from Samba, and replace it with something that
>will do the job instead and is appropriately licensed
>for libraries that need to link with proprietary code.
>
>Once that's done, then I have another action item
>to package up the third_party libs we want to remove,
>and set up and test a build farm host and fix the
>build farm scripts to make sure they can build with
>either locally installed -dev packages, or an rsync
>downloaded third_party.tgz bundle.
>
>Once *that* is done we can do the bit I'm really
>looking forward to, which is rm -rf third_party
>(or the git equivalent :-).
>
>Cheers,
>
>	Jeremy.