On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 09:48:52AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 17:13 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:57 PM Gordon Ball <gor...@chronitis.net> wrote: > > > src:zeromq3 and libzmq3-dev currently embed headers from the separate > > > cppzmq repository. However, the associated cmake files are not included, > > > which means when trying to build downstream projects which use cppzmq > > > and cmake, it's necessary to hack the buildsystem or embed the cmake > > > files from cppzmq. > > These are different projects and should be packaged differently. As > > czmq is packaged by Luca, I think cppzmq should be packaged by him as > > well. But let's hear what he says. > > > > Regards, > > Laszlo/GCS > > Hi, > > Given it's just a header, I don't think it's necessary to do anything > complicated - there's nothing to build and there's no dependencies to > track. No point in having separate packages or cmake files or whatnot - > #include is all a user needs. >
The CMake files aren't _needed_, but they're provided upstream and downstream projects that use cppzmq and CMake expect them to be there, and it feels like an unnecessary friction to need to patch/override the buildsystem of downstream projects to get round us shipping the headers but not the other parts of the cppzmq distribution. As observed, I don't know ZMQ that well, so I'm not trying to force anything if you really don't think this is good idea, but from my perspective either including the cmake files in libzmq3-dev or splitting cppzmq into a separate source package which ships them would seem to be a usability improvement. > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi
