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Using the system-libetpan causes pain to people who have out-dated library versions, additionally it is nice to by default create a library which uses dependencies as close as possible to the android version for testing purposes. This makes sure that the bundeled sub-projects are used by default. Additionally it makes sure to not install these bundeled dependencies and only statically link the libdeltachat.so against them. This is beneficial to not conflict with any system-installed versions of these libraries, especially since some bundled libraries are stripped down and would not provide indirect users of the library the full library functionality. It does still provide an option to use the system-provided libetpan if desired however, this makes sure libdeltachat plays nice with normal package managers etc. |
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This directory contains some libraries needed by the Delta Chat core library.
While it is also possible, to use the corresponding system libraries, it may be easier on some OS to use the source from here which compiles fine under "normal" circumstances.
Moreover, using the libraries from this directory may make fixing errors easier (as we use the same code under different Delta Chat implementations). The disadvantage to the system libraries may be that the system may react faster on security fixes than Delta Chat - I think this is true only for Linux. For the same reason, packages using non-sytem libraries may be rejected from some Linux repositories.
Moreover, we've fixed some bugs here and there; these lines are marked by
EDIT BY MR then (as soon as we find the time, we should check if such changes
could form a pull request to the used library).