From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16725 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2011 16:19:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 16716 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2011 16:19:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:18:57 +0000 Received: from wpaz33.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz33.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.97]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p0CGIsw6010984 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:18:54 -0800 Received: from pxi2 (pxi2.prod.google.com [10.243.27.2]) by wpaz33.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p0CGIqu4004847 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:18:52 -0800 Received: by pxi2 with SMTP id 2so143365pxi.26 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:18:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.242.19 with SMTP id p19mr36485wfh.28.1294849130340; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from coign.google.com (dhcp-172-22-121-189.mtv.corp.google.com [172.22.121.189]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w22sm1036179wfd.19.2011.01.12.08.18.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:18:49 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Bill Cox Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Dumb idea for accelerating FOSS development References: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:19:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Bill Cox's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:07:48 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00154.txt.bz2 Bill Cox writes: > $ gcc myprog.c -lgit://github/~waywardgeek/sonic=0.1 In Go we have a program goinstall which looks at import statements and pulls in required libraries, where the libraries are named based on where the sources live. A similar process could work in the C/C++ world, based on #include statements. http://golang.org/cmd/goinstall/ Ian