<p>Hi Holger, I heartily agree with you that this is an important issue.  In talking with <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=1550655" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/ronsaldo">@ronsaldo</a> this morning he wrote</p>
<p>"The painful change is building all of these third party dependencies with cmake. And cmake is not suitable at all for doing this. I would like to remove these third party dependencies on the near future, but for doing this we need a server for holding them."</p>
<p>and I replied</p>
<p>I think the best thing to do is to<br>
a) have a directory in each build.foo* which includes the pre-built support libraries<br>
b) have a separate repository to build the support libraries<br>
c) a workflow where when a new version of a library is needed one checks out repository b) and builds, and then replaces the libraries in a) and commits.  That is what I'm doing with Terf.  See terf-cogvm/platforms/Cross/third-party/lib.macos32x86 & lib.macos64x64.</p>
<p>And he agrees.</p>
<p>So was soon as possible we should split the repository to create e.g. opensmalltalk-third-party and stop rebuilding third-party software unnecessarily.  We do have to decide where the products live on opensmalltalk-vm.  I propose that they live in build.*/third-party/lib</p>

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