[Plib-devel] Creating shared libs or plib under Linux

[Hans de G. <j.w...@hh...>]

Hi,

First a short intro (again). I'm a Linux enthousiast / programmer and a
packager for Fedora Extras which is an online community that packages
software in the native package format for Fedora Core a (well known)
Linux distribution.

I've recently taken over as the plib Fedora package maintainer and I'm
going to create a new plib-1.8 package which will create shared
libraries (.so) files instead of the .a files which plib-1.8 currently
creates. Note that other distros like Debian and Ubuntu already do this.
(there are very good reasons to prefer .so files even for very small
pieces of shared code)

Now I can quickly hack something together for the .so file creation (as
debian has done) or do this properly. Hacking something together is much
quicker for me. Thus the question is are you (the plib developers)
willing to merge proper written shared lib patches into plib cvs and
thus plibs next release? If you are then I'll go and create proper
patches if not the hackish way sounds tempting.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans