included git submodules
Hi,
OK, so I'm close to releasing my new library libcifpp. To make life
easier for those who build it from source I've included automatic
loading of submodules from git, a technique I also use for tools
depending on libcifpp.
The submodules are the regex library from boost, which is already
included in Debian, and two new libraries, gxrio for reading and writing
compressed files using standard c++ streams and libconfig which I use as
a replacement for boost::program_options. These last two allow me to be
independent of boost which always was the root cause of issues people
had when building my code. Both libraries are header only.
In Debian, having a makefile fetch submodules is of course not an
option. So I have to choose between including the source code for these
two libraries in each project that uses them. Or to submit yet two new
libraries into Debian, libraries that are very small and only used by my
tools, well that's what I expect.
Suggestions, opinions? What is done with other packages that rely on
submodules?
BTW, the boost regex is sadly needed since the one supplied by gcc
generates stack overflows for all but the simplest regular expressions.
The two libraries I created as extra are:
https://github.com/mhekkel/gxrio.git and
https://github.com/mhekkel/libconfig.git
Although useful in my eyes, perhaps these are too simple to be included
in Debian?
-maarten
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