Hi. Sorry could not resist the subject line, but fact is I need a good advice. I know our rulebook about including 3rd party libraries, but rules are open to interpretation, and since I am involved in the development I consider my opinion for biased.
In Corinthia we depend on the following third party libraries (currently not in repo): zlib1 libxml2 iconv SDL SDL_Image. The first 3 ones are not available precompiled for windows 64bit (at least not from a trustworthy source), so we need to make it available. I see 3 options: 1) Ask developers to download and build by them self (sadly enough they also need to setup the vcxproj file) 2) one PPMC (in this case me) precompilles all libs, make them available as a zip on minotaur, which of course is a trusted source, but somewhat ackward to the project. 3) the sources are added to the repo, in a designated directory and integrated in our build system. I would prefer to suggest 3), but I want to be absolutely sure, that we do it the right way. I would suggest: a) put a README, for each downloaded lib, with the original URL and version b) add the licenses to the LICENSE file c) copy the README into NOTICES d) In the first commit, make a commit text like the README. e) Make the missing bits for a 64bit version, and integrate in our build system. Would that be a good solution to the problem, or do you have other ideas or corrections ? My goal here is, to make the right decision up front, and not when we have cut a release. Thanks in advance fellow Mentors for helping me. rgds jan I.
