Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming our threads libs Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0709252032280.22781@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <46F9A764.6000008@delphij.net> References: <20070926002038.GA56119@dragon.NUXI.org> <46F9A764.6000008@delphij.net>
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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. libpthread is currently installed as libkse. 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. I think libthr should remain named as it currently is. The links are a convenient way to swap between either of the two (or future) libraries as default and still leave a visible sign as to which library is the default. So I really think those should stay as they are. -- DE
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