Re: cimg-dev

["Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com>]

2009/1/13 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> However, the library comes with many example programs, which currently
>> are compiled, *but not shipped in the binary*. What's the best way to
>> solve this? The GSL created a gsl-bin package where the examples go,
>> but somone in #debian-devel told me that it would be better to just
>> forgo such a package entirely and not attempt to compile the library
>> at all.
[snip]
> Compiling them during package build is also fine; it can be viewed as
> a kind of test suite, which is always good.

But it takes a long-ass time to compile them, especially since all of
CImg has to be compiled each time, and there's 30 of them.

I think it's more environmentally friendly to forestall the heat death
of the universe by avoiding unnecessary compilation.

Still opposed?

- Jordi G. H.