Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:26:11 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Marie Helene Kvello-Aune <marieheleneka@gmail.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r304815 - in head: lib lib/libifc share/examples/libifc share/mk Message-ID: <CAG6CVpUyK3Vcgz=EiyAFEt9-x5XG%2Bg8eyt=CORS=kMyg05G91A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1A050E0F-4B9F-420A-97C6-C203B92A5F3F@FreeBSD.org> References: <201608251940.u7PJePv3023083@repo.freebsd.org> <23395083.lPEyYQ7ZbW@ralph.baldwin.cx> <1A050E0F-4B9F-420A-97C6-C203B92A5F3F@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 25 Aug 2016, at 22:14, John Baldwin wrote: >> I hate even writing this mail, and it looks like the topic wasn't really >> discussed in the review, but I think libifconfig is probably the "better" >> name if the goal is to move most of ifconfig into it. Certainly if a >> developer is looking for a library that provides a programmatic interface >> to the same operations a user does via ifconfig, libifconfig is the name >> they will look for first. > > This is the right time to bring this sort of thing up. One of the reasons > I pushed to get this in the tree in this very early state was to provoke > exactly this sort of response. Right now the work is still in an early state > and changing this sort of thing is still possible. > > The name was in fact discussed privately, and we figured libifconfig was a > bit > on the long side. > > I certainly take your point about libifc_. Does anyone else have any views > regarding > the naming (or other subjects)? Hi, I don't have anything to add, other than a "me too." I'd second John's suggestions. 'libifconfig' for the library name is more reasonable than libifc. And just 'ifc_' (or even 'ifconfig_') prefixes for public library routines is sufficient. Thanks, Conrad
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