Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-cpp/gtest

["\"Paweł Hajdan, Jr.\"" <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>]

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On 6/30/13 3:03 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote:
> dev-cpp/gtest is Google's testing framework.  According to upstream it
> is supposed to be shipped as source code and then compiled by the build
> system of the software that should be tested.  In particular it should
> be compiled with exactly the same flags.

That's correct, and I consider that design broken.

They could have easily provided an executable like gtest-config or even
just use pkg-config to provide proper flags to compile the dependent
sources.

> So far our gtest package has shipped only the compiled library and a
> bunch of helper scripts.  Now bug 474454 asks for the sources to be
> installed too (or exclusively).  What should we do?

IMHO a package that installs sources makes no sense. Anything that would
use it would be highly non-standard - this was not indended to be shared.

I'd rather schedule dropping the package and make reverse dependencies
use bundled gtest (upstream intends this to be used as a copylib).

In the long term it could be worth it to convince upstream to do
something more sane and standard. It is technically possible.

Paweł


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