Reasons to require platforms to link against libmirplatform

[Andreas Pokorny]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Daniel van Vugt <
daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:

> As discussed yesterday, I think long term we need to get away from
> requiring drivers to link to anything at all. Because some vendors/lawyers
> require that, and specifically require that they not be asked to link to
> LGPL code. Aiming for this higher goal will also force us to think more
> deeply and build a better system...


The future is now. The main motivation for this change disappeared a few
years ago. Current standard libraries seem to be able to deal with typeinfo
behind module boundaries. For now input platforms do not need to link
anything to be able to talk to a mirserver. And for now I am not continuing
that refactoring. We still might do a split of libmirplatform some time in
the future.


regards
Andreas
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