[LLVMdev] proposal to avoid zlib dependency.

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:27:42PM +0300, Yaron Keren wrote:
> Large software libraries like OpenCV (under 3rdparty directory) do include
> copies of zlib and friends and build it, for that reasons. The source code
> is just half a megabyte and I think the license is compatible. We could do
> the same with zlib or  miniz.

>From a packager's perspective, library bundling is one of the most
obnoxious issues around. It creates all kind of fun whenever a security
issue is found or you have to fix the same portability issue in 100
different copies (*cough* gtest *cough*)

Joerg