Re: Renaming our threads libs

[Julian Elischer <julian_(_at_)_elischer_(_dot_)_org>]

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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