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Re: ALURE 1.0 Debian packages
by Chris Robinson-5
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On Wednesday 10 June 2009 3:51:57 pm Andres Mejia wrote:
> The ALURE Homepage says ALURE is licensed under LGPL. Checking the source
> however, there is no copyright headers in any of the source files and
> there's only the LGPL 2 license in the 'COPYING' file in the top source
> directory. Did you mean "LGPL version 2 or (at your option) any later
> version" like with the OpenAL Soft license?
Hi. Yes, ALURE's license is intended to be LGPL v2 or later, like OpenAL Soft.
I'll try to add that to the sources (as long as it doesn't mess up Natural
Docs' output), or to a readme.
> Also, the example programs are built by cmake but not installed. Is this
> intentional? What I'm doing right now is including the sources for the
> example programs as part of the documentation for the ALURE development
> package.
I never gave much thought to installing the example programs, as they were
mostly intended as example code showing the simple uses of the lib. They
could, though, I guess be useful for making sure the lib is working.. but I
have to wonder how many sound playing apps a user will need.
> Also, I see there's an option for building a static library but doesn't
> allow it to be built with the shared library. This isn't like OpenAL Soft
> where there's no such option and the -DLIBTYPE=STATIC option has to be
> passed into cmake. For ALURE, do you have any objections for installing
> static libraries alongside shared libraries?
My main reservation with static libraries with ALURE (as opposed to OpenAL) is
that it shares the same name as the shared lib. If you install both
libalure.so and libalure.a, then linking with -lalure will always pick the
shared lib AFAIK. Conversely, libalure.a isn't needed for any pre-compiled
binaries, and since pkg-config isn't flexible enough to "select" between
shared and static, all linking the user does would use the shared lib if it's
there.
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> The ALURE Homepage says ALURE is licensed under LGPL. Checking the source
> however, there is no copyright headers in any of the source files and
> there's only the LGPL 2 license in the 'COPYING' file in the top source
> directory. Did you mean "LGPL version 2 or (at your option) any later
> version" like with the OpenAL Soft license?
Hi. Yes, ALURE's license is intended to be LGPL v2 or later, like OpenAL Soft.
I'll try to add that to the sources (as long as it doesn't mess up Natural
Docs' output), or to a readme.
> Also, the example programs are built by cmake but not installed. Is this
> intentional? What I'm doing right now is including the sources for the
> example programs as part of the documentation for the ALURE development
> package.
I never gave much thought to installing the example programs, as they were
mostly intended as example code showing the simple uses of the lib. They
could, though, I guess be useful for making sure the lib is working.. but I
have to wonder how many sound playing apps a user will need.
> Also, I see there's an option for building a static library but doesn't
> allow it to be built with the shared library. This isn't like OpenAL Soft
> where there's no such option and the -DLIBTYPE=STATIC option has to be
> passed into cmake. For ALURE, do you have any objections for installing
> static libraries alongside shared libraries?
My main reservation with static libraries with ALURE (as opposed to OpenAL) is
that it shares the same name as the shared lib. If you install both
libalure.so and libalure.a, then linking with -lalure will always pick the
shared lib AFAIK. Conversely, libalure.a isn't needed for any pre-compiled
binaries, and since pkg-config isn't flexible enough to "select" between
shared and static, all linking the user does would use the shared lib if it's
there.
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