From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Needs ideas: Upcoming circular dependency: expat <> CMake
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:19:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6407f2d-72fa-7cef-14c5-1d6dd9dd75b2@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85c9df6f-fcf5-61d7-90af-a375f5c75088@gentoo.org>
On 12/18/19 4:02 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I noticed that dev-util/cmake depends on dev-libs/expat and that
> libexpat upstream (where I'm involved) is in the process of
> dropping GNU Autotools altogether in favor of CMake in the near future,
> potentially the next release (without any known target release date).
>> ...
>
> Do you have any ideas how to avoid a bad circular dependency issue for
> our users in the future? Are you aware of similar problems and
> solutions from the past?
Keep autotools?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-19 0:19 UTC|newest]
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2019-12-18 21:02 ` [gentoo-dev] Needs ideas: Upcoming circular dependency: expat <> CMake Sebastian Pipping
2019-12-18 21:08 ` Michał Górny
2019-12-18 21:10 ` Piotr Karbowski
2019-12-18 21:14 ` Michał Górny
2019-12-18 21:44 ` Francesco Riosa
2019-12-19 13:32 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-12-19 14:18 ` Sebastian Pipping
2019-12-18 23:58 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2019-12-19 1:38 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-19 8:31 ` Michał Górny
2019-12-19 14:39 ` Sebastian Pipping
2019-12-19 16:03 ` Michał Górny
2019-12-19 17:28 ` Sebastian Pipping
2019-12-19 17:37 ` Michał Górny
2019-12-19 18:43 ` Sebastian Pipping
2019-12-19 19:21 ` Michał Górny
2019-12-20 13:41 ` Gerion Entrup
2019-12-20 14:25 ` Rich Freeman
2019-12-19 21:28 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-12-19 0:19 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
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