Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add capnproto.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 07:16:22PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 07:48:36PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> >> Note that it bundles googletest; I tried unbundling but it proved
> >> difficult. gtest will no longer be used from the 0.6 release so I did
> >> not think a comment was necessary.
> >
> > I am cc-ing Lukas with my reply, since he added our googletest package.
> > Maybe he has some insight.
> The problem is that their autotools system expects to build gtest as
> well, so there are references all over. See:
> https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/blob/release-0.5.3/c%2B%2B/Makefile.am
> and also configure.ac. It would have to be patched out, which seems
> excessive for a 4MB build dependency.

In my opinion, it's generally not about the size of the bundled
dependency. Rather, it's about the opacity of the dependency graph of
the application that does the bundling. The worst case would be
something like a bundled OpenSSL, for example.

In this case, Debian has accepted the bundled gtest [0], which makes me
wonder if my understanding of gtest is incorrect. Perhaps it is designed
to be bundled?

[0]
https://packages.debian.org/sid/devel/capnproto