Matthew Woehlke

@bretbrownjr, mostly it's looking for buy-in; is this something we want in the spec, especially as it's likely not 1.0 MVP? Or should we leave it on hold? If we...

I'm going to claim that the intended meaning is **defined** component types. That is, more generally, the specification says nothing about the other attributes of a non-defined component type. If...

I think you're over-complicating things. The way this works is actually relatively simple: - Are you *dynamically loading* the artifact? Use `location`, always. - Are you *linking* the artifact? Use...

> I'm not an expert on Windows, but you never link to the .dll, only the .lib, right? *Link*, yes, but you *load* the `.dll`. There are instances in which...

> This makes me feel like we're specing backwards then. Perhaps. I'll concede that there is historical "baggage" present. OTOH, from a human-language point of view, it seems (to me,...

What, specifically, is the proposal here?

> Do we recommend absl_time_zone.cps or do we recommend an omnibus absl.cps that includes models for each library shipped by the absl project? I don't know that it's our place...

Note: the name according to CPS is `project:library` with *one* `:`. (I know I often will write two out of habit, but the official spec is one.) It's assumed/intended that...

> Should CPS files adopt `RelWithDebInfo` as an explicit default or should it be unqualified like the pkg-config metadata? Configurations are... complicated, and right now CPS isn't trying to say...

FYI @autoantwort, this should fix a couple of the issues you raised. I'd appreciate if you can verify whether I did it right; thanks!