Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming our threads libs Message-ID: <20070926045306.GB60798@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0709252032280.22781@sea.ntplx.net> References: <20070926002038.GA56119@dragon.NUXI.org> <46F9A764.6000008@delphij.net> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0709252032280.22781@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:39:09PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, LI Xin wrote: >> David O'Brien wrote: >>> We have little time before 7.0-RELEASE to get this right.. >>> >>> For consistency and expectations from users (especially of other OS's), >>> should we ask RE@ to rename libpthread to libkse (or whatever) and rename >>> libthr to libpthread? Remember - what we release 7.0 will be burned into >>> folks Makefile's and vernacular. >> >> Do you mean repocopy from src/lib/libpthread -> src/lib/libkse? Because >> libpthread.so.X is now installed as a symbolic link to actual default >> threading library I think it would be an overkill to rename libthr to >> libpthread, but to reduce confusion it might be better to rename >> lib/libpthread to lib/libkse. > > I think it's fine just the way it is. Everyone currently knows > libpthread and libthr by name. Everyone that has followed FreeBSD 7 from start to finish. There actually was confusion over this topic at the FreeBSD using company I work for. > I don't think you need to repo copy the src tree > to match, unless there is too much heartburn over having the > src directory named differently from the library. As I mentioned - I think there is unnecessary heartburn. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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