Patch to remove zlib.

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jul 9 13:50:36 MDT 2014


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:46:47PM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> Note: To apply it  unxz it then use git am --ignore-whitespace , otherwise
> you may have issues.  (xz was used to save the list a good bit of space...
> it's over 500k gzipped.)
> 
> As far as why: I listened to metze/vl.  I disagree with them.
> 
> I believe that third party (non Samba Team developed) libraries do not
> belong in the tree.  They are asking for trouble long term, IMHO.
> 
> Consider this patch the first step down the path to cleaning up these
> libraries.

Please make sure that you can still build the file server,
winbind and smbclient without zlib around at all.

Otherwise I will NACK this, whatever meaning that might still
have.

Thanks,

Volker

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