[Oisf-devel] libhtp upgrade

[Peter Manev]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net> wrote:
> Anoop's work to upgrade our libhtp support to 0.5.x is pretty much done
> and ready to be merged.
>
> I think this is a good moment to reconsider how we distribute libhtp.
> Currently we have it merged in our git repo. This is convenient for the
> users, as they always have the correct libhtp.
>
> However, it's a major hassle for us devs, as we need to keep it in sync
> with the official libhtp. So I would like to remove libhtp from our git
> repo.
>
> I think it is still a good idea to bundle libhtp in our tarball though,
> that way users will still be able to have the hassle free experience.
>
> Any thoughts about this? I was thinking to just script up the tarball
> creation to include a checkout of libhtp. Not sure how easy it will be
> to make our autotools play well with this though.
>
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As long as the stable version's tarball has it (the way it is now)  -
it is ok for the  the PPA packaging stuff I think, even though we
compile with non-bundled-htp.

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Regards,
Peter Manev