Re: qqwing as GNOME Sudoku depencency

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 14:17 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> For 3.13.90 we want GNOME Sudoku to depend on qqwing for puzzle
> generation. qqwing is a faster and more reliable Sudoku puzzle generator
> than the one currently implemented by GNOME Sudoku.
>
> It's not currently packaged by major distros, but it's small and has no
> dependencies.
>
> The project homepage is http://ostermiller.org/qqwing/.  We would be
> depending on the C++ library, not the Java jar.

Spontaneously I have mixed feelings:
While the API/ABI freeze is with 3.13.90 on August 18th, this feels like
stuff to preferably do at the beginning of a schedule so distributions
can realize and allocate resources to package "qqwing".
But in theory we could warn distributions via distributor-list  

Could you please elaborate a bit what your judgement that it's faster
and more reliable is based on? (Even if a small library, I wonder how
well that code is tested if it's not packaged by major distros.)

Thanks,
andre
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