Bug#366483: ITP: oci-mpc -- The Makefile, Project and Workspace Creator

[thomas.g.girard@free.fr]

Hello Alex,

> Selon alex bodnaru <alexbodn@012.net.il>:
> > examining mpc-ace, i found it's dependent on libace and libtao, which
> > is, in my opinion, too much for a few perl scripts ;-).
>
> Ouch, you're right. It depends on libace-dev, and recommends libtao-dev.
>
> > is this really needed for this special versions of mpc?
>
> Let me check... Well, I've added this dependency because of the makefile
> fragments in rules.* files. I'll have a closer look soon and let you
> know. In the meantime, you can install libace-dev and see if you can
> get further.

I had a quick look yesterday at OCI's MPC. It is not that different from
ACE+TAO's one. Actually, every ACE+TAO release ships with up-to-date MPC.
Indeed, ACE+TAO version 5.5.1+1.5.1 is close to MPC version 3.3.xx.

Thanks to you, I had a look at Version.pm, and now I know how the `xx' get
computed: it is the number of ChangeLog entries since the last major.minor
release. (And therefore I know why mpc-ace version displays `??' instead of
`xx': it does not find the ChangeLog)

So you're correct: mpc-ace should not depend *at all* on libace-dev. I'll
fix this, thanks.

Thomas