[Fedora-packaging] Should Scintilla be package as a shared library ?

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/7/1 Remi Collet <Fedora at famillecollet.com>:
> Hi,
>
> http://www.scintilla.org/ is a free source code editing component.
>
> Upstream provides only a makefile for a static library.
>
> Of course, it's quite easy to create a shared library, but without
> versionning as upstream doesn't handle this.
>
> At least scite (in fedora repo) use this library, but probably other
> projects (I have no way to detect this).
>
> I'm working in MySQL Workbench, which also use it (and some other
> bundled libraries, as curl, boost, ..., more easy to remove)
>
> What sould I do ?
>
>        - package scintilla as a shared lib
>
> (this will imply rebuilding all applications on scintilla update and
> probably issue with applications using different version)
>
> or
>        - package MySQL Workbench with the bundled scintilla
>
> (the simple solution, but against good pratices)
>
> Thanks for your comment on this.
> Remi.

Geany is another such application.