From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 04:53:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D212016A417; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (trang.nuxi.org [74.95.12.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05FE13C455; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8Q4r6Pi060872; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8Q4r6VR060871; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:53:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Daniel Eischen Message-ID: <20070926045306.GB60798@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20070926002038.GA56119@dragon.NUXI.org> <46F9A764.6000008@delphij.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming our threads libs X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:53:15 -0000 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)