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Re: conversation submodule questions


From: Schanzenbach, Martin
Subject: Re: conversation submodule questions
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:21:16 +0200


> On 26. Oct 2019, at 11:12, Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Yeah seems better for REST and most others, but conversation? Not everybody 
wants to pull
gst/pulse when installing the gnunet package (e.g. headless)


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