Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:04:25 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Packaging libtraceevent.so |
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On 12/2/2013 11:03 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Hi all! > > The question has recently come up in Fedora about packaging the > libtraceevent.so library. Currently there's 4 users of it: > > 1) perf > 2) trace-cmd > 3) powertop > 4) rasdaemon > > But each have their own copy of the code. > > Both perf and trace-cmd are the major developers of the package, and I > would recommend that they continue using the *.a version, but for those > tools that are simple users of the library, it would probably make > sense to have them use libtraceevent.so and remove their copies from > the code (powertop and rasdaemon). > > The question that I'm posing here is, what currently needs to be done > to have this happen? > > Is the API stable enough for a release? > > We probably should have a dot versioning with the .so (ie. > libtraceevent.so.1) > > So what are people's thoughts on this topic? >
powertop would much rather use a system copy than our own... but if it's not there in common distros we need to carry our own obviously
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