[Bug 189315] Review Request: ardour

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Summary: Review Request: ardour


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189315





------- Additional Comments From green at redhat.com  2006-04-21 08:09 EST -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you aware that by default ardour's build system will build and statically
> link to several libraries included in the release tarball which may already be
> packaged in FE. The packaging guidelines say something about this as I recall.

I looked into this a little.  The ardour sources are bundled with versions of
libsigc++, libgtkmm, and other libraries not currently packaged for FC/E.  The
packaging guidelines say that packages should only link against system
libraries, not private versions of their own libraries.  However, I think we
should make an exception in this case.  Here are my reasons:

- The versions of these libraries are very different from the versions packaged
in Fedora (by major version numbers). 
- The libraries have been modified by the ardour authors.
- The ardour authors only support the use of these statically linked modified
libraries.
- The ardour authors support these libraries within ardour as if it were their
own application code.  

Updating ardour to use the system libraries would be a major development effort
and would not have the support of the upstream project.

I think the fact that these are statically linked into the app (making it
impossible for another app to use my mistake) is also a mitigating factor here.

Please make an exception in this case.  Forcing ardour to use system versions of
these libraries would be counter-productive.


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