Re: WNPP/ITP/... for Amazon SDK for C++ ?
On 13 January 2022 at 19:18, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
| On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 10:31:03AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > You have a large set there which covers three of the ones I'd need. Could
| > you upload these:
| >
| > https://salsa.debian.org/rvandegrift/aws-c-common
| > https://salsa.debian.org/rvandegrift/aws-checksums
| > https://salsa.debian.org/rvandegrift/aws-c-event-stream
| >
| > to allow partial progress, and a 'base camp' from which we can continue?
| > (You have quite the load there too...) Maybe we can then build the AWS SDK
| > (or parts thereof) we need on top?
|
| The cloud team met this week and we discussed this. We're happy to do
| this, but there's one caveat: as far as we know, upstream won't provide
| long term supported releases for this stack. They work in the
| "everyone runs the newest" model. Probably not a big deal for
| aws-c-common or aws-checksums. But aws-c-event-stream (transitively)
| depends on s2n and aws-lc where security support is critical. So it's
| probably not feasible to ship in a stable release.
"Fine by me" (for now).
| Still, it'd be useful to provide packages so folks can start to
| experiment - hopefully things will eventually settle down.
Exactly. Testing support on a rolling basis is great.
| I'll start making sure these are ready to go, and I'll ping you when
| they're ready. Would you mind uploading or sponsoring the initial
| round? I'm nonuploading, so I can't create new binary packages.
Great. Happy to do that.
Dirk
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