Work needed, how you can help!

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Dec 8 20:51:35 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:25:30 -0500, James wrote:
>>  This is essentially the -devel package with all the debugging turned
>> on. I guess I could name it ustr-debug-devel if we really have to
>> (although having a ustr-debug-devel without a ustr-debug seems a little
>> weird).
> 
> How would that be weird? I can imagine things like a-devel package that
> specifies an interface without any main package to depend on.

In fact we already have such packages: template-only C++ libraries. As
templates need to be instantiated from their headers, they have all their
code inlined in headers and no actual libraries. See eigen-devel,
eigen2-devel, gmm-devel for some examples.

        Kevin Kofler




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