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

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-8-20 06:07 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Time for a re-think, or
> perhaps even just the creation of some sort of modality such that those
> who wish to live on the risky edge can set a switch (and advance
> apologies if that switch already exists and I simply haven't noticed it
> yet) and those who don't, or who need to support multiple versions of
> the OS from a single tree (NFS-mounted /opt/local anyone?), can set the
> switch to the other position.
> 
> Thoughts?

This is another one of those ideas that is fine in principle, with the
one little catch being that it requires significant work, and nobody is
putting up their hand to do said work.

- Josh