Hi all, On 11:10 Wed 09 Nov , Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, Giulio Paci wrote: > > https://jira.mongodb.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/CXX-923 > > > > They finally released mongocxx 3.0.x, that they currently recommend for new > > development. On the other hand, my use case for this package (Orion context > > That's correct for "new development", but since it's not API compatible (I > guess) it's not an option for uwsgi.
Also note that as of now, upstream does not set a SONAME for 3.x either. > > > > (and possibly have > > > mongo-cxx-driver-legacy provide mongodb-dev as a metapackage as well), > > > > What is the purpouse of this metapackage? > > The original package was providing the headers for the same C++ driver > that was bundled as part of uwsgi from what I understood. > > I guess Apollon suggested to re-create it as an empty package depending > on libmongoclient-dev so that the transition is smooth. Exactly. Note that currently only uwsgi Build-Depends on mongodb-dev, but we would like to also take care of users who build their own software against mongodb-dev. > > > as at least one package (uwsgi) could make use of it. > > > > Maybe the new driver could be an alternative for this package? > > Not if the API are different... > > > Currently I have no time at all (and will likely not have time for the next > > few months). So feel free to work on this package as you want/need. > > I am open to co-maintainance or even to orphan this package, if you want to > > adopt it. > > Ok. Apollon, do you want to take up on this offer to handle the move to > unstable? I guess I could do it together with the rest of the MongoDB-related work in a couple of days. In general I don't like the fact that upstream does not set a SONAME, but at least this is better than the static linking we used to do with mongodb-dev. Regards, Apollon
