Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:42:20 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: d@delphij.net, obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming our threads libs Message-ID: <46F9AAEC.7050808@elischer.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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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. 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. for clarity I'd revert libpthread to libkse but leave libthr as it is.. >
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