Re: [Monotone-devel] Status of nvm.stripped

[Thomas Moschny]

Thomas Keller wrote:
> The other (lazy) way would be to define a list of external libraries
> with which we know the build works (i.e. because we've tested them) and
> leave everything else to the downstream packagers. We receive bug
> reports and incorporate their fixes for the next release. This just
> became a rather small open source project, I don't think people have
> ressources to additionally check if monotone builds and behaves correct
> with all seven boost versions, three botans, two luas and whatever.

Totally agree.

Are we (when combining different versions of the used libraries) to 
expect subtle bugs that eat peoples databases with no one noticing?

I guess most problems will rather arise at compile time or when running 
the test suite. And distributions should run the test suite before 
shipping their builds to the end user. For the Fedora package we surely 
do that.

So, I'm in favor of merging this branch earlier rather than later, so 
maybe very soon after releasing 0.42.

- Thomas