From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15543 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2009 19:37:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 15533 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Sep 2009 19:37:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:37:37 +0000 Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87r5uoj68z.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: Gerard Jungman Cc: GSL Discuss Mailing List Subject: Re: GSL 2.0 roadmap (one man's view) In-Reply-To: <1251414939.23092.82.camel@manticore.lanl.gov> References: <48E25CA9.6080306@iki.fi> <490DE4BD.7070907@iki.fi> <497B00F6.2080400@iki.fi> <498727E5.6080407@iki.fi> <49AA9DB5.6030908@iki.fi> <49FB01D1.30000@iki.fi> <4A7ADFDC.9080408@iki.fi> <1251414774.23092.80.camel@manticore.lanl.gov> <1251414939.23092.82.camel@manticore.lanl.gov> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 76bae808bb5d233871971101ce02013d Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:15:39 -0600, Gerard Jungman wrote: > * Better overall organization, expression of module dependencies, etc. I would be happy to remove the goal of independent sublibraries from the design document--it doesn't reflect reality. I am not clear what benefit it would provide to users now anyway--is there actually a problem with "one big library"? The original motivation was to minimise memory usage and allow code to be extracted. Memory for shared libraries is not really an issue these days--we can also leave it up to the linker to remove unnecessary functions if that is a problem. The idea of people extracting parts of the library doesn't seem important either -- it is much easier to install the whole thing. If you want to avoid the symbolic linking of header files we could just move them into the gsl/ directory instead of keeping them in the individual subdirectories. (While the symlinks are ugly I don't think they have ever actually caused a problem for anyone.) -- Brian