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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 05:33:25 +0800
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Subject: Re: libifconfig non-private in 13?
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 5:18 AM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Libifconfig was marked as private (and experimental) back in 2016.
> > It=E2=80=99s since made some strides and has grown a few users. Ifconfi=
g now depends
> > on it as well.
> >
> > While it=E2=80=99s far from finished it=E2=80=99d be more useful for so=
me users if it were
> > public. That would at least imply some level of API/ABI stability, whic=
h is
> > why I=E2=80=99m bringing it up here before pulling the trigger.
> >
> > Does anyone see any reasons to not do this?
> >
>
> I would go the otherway around, any reason to make it public yet? if yes =
they go
> ahead, if no keep it private ;)

I would say it is nice to have some scripting language bindings to it,
although I'm not sure if this is possible and a feasible usage.

Best,
Li-Wen