[Pkg-ace-devel] Re: [devo-group] reactor separation & automake

[Marek Brudka]

Hi,

User Balachandran Natarajan wrote:

> > So the expectation is that projects that use ACE/TAO would also use a
> > installed version of MPC for their make/project files?  Is this done
> > today?  Is it considered desirable? 
>
>Nope. Promoting that is bad, though we have been doing it today, we
>should be getting away from it as much as possible. If not, the DOC
>repo changes to MPC and GNUmakefiles would start affecting
>applications build environment, which is nasty. I know we have been
>promoting that today, but if possible we should reduce those
>dependancies.
>
> > Why was this done for the reactors and not ACE_SSL, ACE_QoS,
> > ACE_RMCast, ACE_TMCast, etc?  
>
>Right!
>
Great idea! I'm for it. In general it is better to create separate
libraries than using preprocessor macros.

BTW. ACE_RMCast and ACE_TMCast are separated libraries now.

Marek