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Hi, |
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Robin H. Johnson schrieb: |
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> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:56:51AM +0100, Thomas R?sner wrote: |
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>> I can understand that rationale for the client part, but which packages |
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>> would depend on the server part of e.g. MySQL if they could? |
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>> And building the server part to get the small client lib is a larger |
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>> PITA than building the client lib to get the server, no? |
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>> In other words: this is a sound argument against the client use flag, |
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>> but I don't think it's quite as convincing regarding the server flag, |
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>> which is more important IMHO. |
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>> Btw, I agree that the best thing to do would be to prompt upstream to |
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>> split those packages (where it makes sense), which is the preferred way |
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>> to handle this here (at least I read this somewhere, does it still |
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>> apply?), but does anybody do that actually? To stay with the MySQL |
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>> example, did anyone try to suggest to MySQL AB that seperate releases |
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>> for the client part* would be nice? |
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> It depends hugely on the structure of the code-base. In MySQL for |
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> example, if you wanted to build only the server, you'd still need a big |
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> hunk of the shared code (it's one set of code, that is compiled in two |
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> different ways, once for the client, and once for the server), and |
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> building the server actually requires building the client anyway (plus |
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> the proper shared libs) thus splitting out the source for lib, client, |
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> server does not make sense. |
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Yes and no. The same applies to Postgres, and still they provide the |
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libs in an extra package. It just makes sense, how much of that 20M |
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mysql tarball is used by the client? It's like you'd have to dl apache |
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(four times) to get wget. |
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*investigates* Hm, perhaps the client does more than I thought it does, |
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on one sys here it's a 1.5M lib. |
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> One of the other arguments I have against the split, and it applies to |
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> both CVS and MySQL - is that if you don't build the server, you cannot |
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> use src_test. |
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I'd guess those with -server would be cool about that. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas |
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