I understand that we want to keep the bundled libraries available as it makes lot easier especially on Windows. This patch doesn't affect the default behaviour at all or remove anything. It just adds a small, nonintrusive set of cmake options that allow using the system libraries instead of the bundled ones.
I just ask you to give me this, to make building and packaging a lot nicer for me. I don't say we should advertise those options to everybody. Also, this doesn't make us any requirements about supporting any specific library versions. I and distro packagers can use the versions that are bundled or any equivalent. Updating the bundled libraries is a separate case.
This is a follow-up on my previous, to be honest quite aggressive pull request [1]. I hope this is more acceptable. It gives me all the benefits I really wanted with the previous request, anyway.
I understand that we want to keep the bundled libraries available as it makes lot easier especially on Windows. This patch doesn't affect the default behaviour at all or remove anything. It just adds a small, nonintrusive set of cmake options that allow using the system libraries instead of the bundled ones.
I just ask you to give me this, to make building and packaging a lot nicer for me. I don't say we should advertise those options to everybody. Also, this doesn't make us any requirements about supporting any specific library versions. I and distro packagers can use the versions that are bundled or any equivalent. Updating the bundled libraries is a separate case.
Thanks.