[LLVMdev] RFC: Using zlib to decompress debug info sections.

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:37:18PM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Historically we've done the former. The latter would require Chris
> > wanting to do that.
> 
> This case isn't so clearcut.  We like to include libraries in the
> source to make it easy to get up and running without having to install
> a ton of dependencies.  However, this has license implications and is
> generally annoying.

>From a security perspective, bundling libraries that had issues in the
past and are not unlikely to have new issues in the future, it is highly
annoying. As such, I would strongly prefer to keep it optional.

Joerg