Re: [Dovecot] Patch: building dovecot-sieve against installed dovecot (Re: sieve discard)

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:49:32PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

I don't really like that idea. The next thing another package wants some other Dovecot libraries and soon we'll have all the .a libs installed somewhere.

liblib.a would be installed with --enable-header-install only, so for users who want to build _something_ upon Dovecot. :-)

And about those "other packages", dovecot-sieve is the most popular, if not the only, dovecot add-on at this moment, so the exception would be justified. :-)

Geert

I've been thinking about making liblib a separate .so library. And maybe the other Dovecot libs a libdovecot_mail.so. But I'm not sure if this is such a great idea either.