Bundled libs (revisited)

[Alec Leamas]

On 02/11/2012 10:38 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Alec Leamas wrote:
>> I have found yet another bundled lib in my review request 2140
>> (bombono).  The lib  is Adobe Source Libraries (ASL), a large,
>> general-purpose addon to STL and boost. The situation:
>> - bombono includes some files from ASL, clearly a bundling situation.
>> - ASL depends on boost 1.44, two versions behind current 1.46.
>> - The nature of ASL (large, general-purpose) probably means that they
>> will always lag boost by one or more versions. At least, this is what
>> the release history shows.
>>
>> So, packaging ASL means dependencies on an outdated boost version. To be
>> frank, I have no idea how to handle this.
> It's your job as the maintainer to make the code work with the latest
> version of Boost, with or without upstream's help.
>
> FWIW, it looks like the RussianFedora folks are working on packaging ASL:
> https://github.com/bookwar/libasl
> http://koji.russianfedora.ru/koji/taskinfo?taskID=21717
> It seems to actually build fine against the current Boost in Fedora. You may
> want to talk to Aleksandra Bookwar about getting this into Fedora proper.
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>

Many thanks for the pointers!