Re: libsundials-dev
On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 23:52 -0700, Dima Kogan wrote:
> Science people:
>
> I'm looking at the sundials packaging again. This is an umbrella
> library
> that has several different sub-libraries for
>
> - different ODE solvers
> - linear algebra backends used by these solvers
>
> The granularity question came up earlier, and some of you pointed me
> to
> a section in the policy (section 8.1) that indicates that putting at
> least each solver into its own separate package is the right thing to
> do.
>
> What about the -dev package? I THINK putting everything into a single
> libsundials-dev is OK, and shouldn't break anything. Is the only
> downside the unnecessary dependencies a user would need to install
> (for
> instance a user that only wants serial computations would need to
> install all the parallel libraries)?
>
> How frowned-upon is this? A joint libsundials-dev would simplify some
> things, and make stuff less error-prone.
>
> I can do a finer split, but want to make sure this is worth the
> trouble
> first.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that each library
composing sundials had separate (so)versioning? If so, then you'd have
no choice but ship them in separate -dev packages, right?
Ghis
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