Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mongodb.

[Roel Janssen]

Hello Ludo’,

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi!
>
> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> My reasoning for keeping the third-party libraries in the tarball was
>> simply because upstream made that choice.  Unbundling can and probably
>> will introduce differences in the behavior of the output with other
>> distributions and their official binaries.
>
> When unbundling, we need to make sure to use compatible library
> versions, and then it should be fine.

Yes, I need to look into the differences (if there are any) of the
bundled libraries.  (I know they found significant performance
improvements with their own implementation of malloc()).

>> I will try to unbundle these libraries from the release tarball.  This
>> could take some time though.
>
> Did you manage to make progress?  I know unbundling can often be tedious
> and thankless…

Thanks for the reminder.  I haven't had time to look at this.  Will try
to make progress on this in the next week.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen