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--></style></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll start by saying that I love the fact we’re now talking about a common representation of packages !</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>The reason I say this is that extending pkg-config seems like it would help adoption rather then creating a completely new format. There is already a good portion of open source projects that already support pkg-config, so tweaking them to support more complicated scenarios seems easier than converting everything to a new format.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m not very familiar with pkg-config (working more in the Windows world) so excuse me if I’m wrong.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From what I remember it is very basic and relies on compiler flags being the same everywhere (ie gcc-like flags), and does not provide any information about things such as ABI, C-runtime Library used (arguably could be represented as a package ?). As far as I know, it assumes that the libraries are always compiled with the same compiler on the same system, hence has no knowledge of compatibility between compiler versions. </p><p class=MsoNormal>As you mentionned, it currently relies on -l for both libraries and linker flags, which would need to be changed.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>so tweaking them to support more complicated scenarios seems easier than converting everything to a new format.</li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wouldn’t that create more confusion ? I fear it’d end up as a python2 python3 issue, where both versions look alike but are incompatible.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Have a nice Week-end,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Lectem</p></div></body></html>