Packaging OSLib

[Tony van der Hoff]

"alan buckley" <alan_baa at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >: "David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> replied.
> >
> >On 21 Nov 2005 "alan buckley" <alan_baa at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there any plans to add OSLib to the RISC OS packaging project?
> >
> > There's nothing to add. OSLib linked in to the program itself, so there
> > is nothing separate to download.
> >
> > As OSLib a light weight library of wrappers around SWIs it will always
> > be directly linked to the program, unlike a larger code library such as
> > UnixLib which may eventually be slit off in to a separate shared library
> > module.
> >
> 
> I think I didn't make myself very clear here. What I was wondering was if
> there were any plans to create an OSLib package (i.e. a packaged version
> of the library) so the latest (packaged) version of the library could be
> downloaded using the RiscPkg Package manager.

Why? What benefits would that bestow?

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