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Clarify the relation to bindeps? #144

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barcharcraz opened this issue Dec 25, 2018 · 4 comments
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Clarify the relation to bindeps? #144

barcharcraz opened this issue Dec 25, 2018 · 4 comments

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@barcharcraz
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I'm a bit confused about what this package provides when compared to bindeps.jl, when should I use bindeps vs this? Do they complement or replace each other?

@ararslan
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BinDeps is effectively end-of-life; going forward, packages with binary dependencies should use BinaryBuilder and BinaryProvider.

@Gnimuc
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Gnimuc commented Dec 26, 2018

BinaryBuilder and BinaryProvider are often called BB2 aka BinDeps2.

@barcharcraz
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OK let's add some info to the readmes of the three packages then :)

@ararslan
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It should also be noted that not all libraries support cross-compilation, which is what BinaryBuilder uses to build binary dependencies. One particularly notable example is HDF5, which at least for now continues to require BinDeps since there isn't currently a way to provide it with BinaryBuilder and BinaryProvider.

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