Re: [Plplot-devel] Next release

[Christophe T. <deb...@ti...>]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Joao Cardoso <jc...@fe...> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 20:49, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * João Cardoso <jc...@fe...> [2003-02-27 19:07]:
> > > I think that the most effective way of using libnn and libcsa is
> > > to incorporate them into our source tree. I have already asked
> > > to libcsa and libnn author's permission, and he agreed.
> >
> > I would avoid this if possible.
> 
> Me too, but we would have to distribute nn and csa ourself, which
> would put an extra configuration/maintenance burden on ourself.
> Also, libnn needs a patch, and it is not reasonable in the
> auto-everything world to ask users to do it for us ;-)

Wouldn't the better solution be that the author of libnn agrees to
merge the patch in his sources?  Has this been asked?

ChriS