On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 00:35 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: […]
There's nothing stopping you packaging it up :-)
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Clearly true, per se. I have though no idea how to create packages, especially for submission to the Fedora repository.
Also I am going to fall into the "chicken and egg" pit myself: it is easier and quicker to create an application specific C++ wrapper around the C API than to contribute the package. I bet this is what is happening generally.