zstd and Mercurial packaging

[Augie Fackler]

> On Dec 1, 2016, at 17:07, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
> 
> Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> writes:
> 
>>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 08:53, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Fedora guidelines: All packages whose upstreams allow them to be built against system libraries must be built against system libraries.
>>> 
>>> So if zstd could become a standard system library it would have to be unbundled.
>> 
>> That should be possible some day, but today we're depending on an as-yet unstable API that requires static linking against a specific version of the library. Is that sufficient to prevent unbundling for now?
> 
> Well, that's problematic for me since I've already added zstd as a
> system lib in MacPorts (under the, I believe, fair assumption) that this
> would be easy to override and link against.

It won't hurt anything to have it there, it just won't help you until zstd stabilizes their API and we can get on the stable API.

It was a fair assumption, except for all the discussion both here and on indygreg's patches which made it clear that it wasn't ;)