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Re: conversation submodule questions


From: Christian Grothoff
Subject: Re: conversation submodule questions
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:12:33 +0200
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On 10/26/19 10:16 AM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
> Really? I am personally responsible for making all of the REST stuff 
> conditional, i.e. it gets
> built of you have the depencies, otherwise not. My proposal would be to 
> change this into:
> 
> 1. Not build REST by default
> 2. Add an --enable-rest switch to build it
> 3. Make configure fail if dependencies are not met
> 
> And do the same to conversation, auction, consensus et al. (maybe even fs).
> That way, we can even get rid of --enable-experimental. Which is ill defined 
> anyway.
> (Who knows what is build with that switch)

I doubt that'll get rid of --enable-experimental, as the next thing
people will ask for is an --enable-all, followed by
--enable-all-without-experimental. Because experimental was primarily
for stuff that might not even _build_.

I personally think it would be better to have --disable-rest and similar
flags, and by default try to build everything. Otherwise we'll end up
with people (not reading docs) saying that they wanted to run gnunet-foo
and couldn't find it (because they forgot --enable-foo). So better fail
if dependency libfoo is unavailable, and have --disable-foo for those
who deliberately don't want to build gnunet-foo because they don't want
it or don't have libfoo.  Plus, I'd keep --enable-experimental, as
that's for code we really don't think normal users should even play
around with yet.

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