A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Dan Ports wrote:
> 
> It may well be true that we are, on the whole, better off for building
> these dependencies, but we shouldn't dismiss the cost of doing so.

The main cost (IMHO) is the build time - and people are working on making that not really an issue (since you'll be able to just pull the build binaries from the buildbot).

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