-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/03/12 10:42, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 19/03/12 10:01, David Sommerseth wrote: [...snip...] >>> >>> On a related note: --enable-iproute2 >>> >>> Should we also expect this to be available on all *nix platforms? >>> iproute2 has been available on most platforms I know of for a >>> very long time, and is superior net-tools in very many ways. >> >> I've been educated by Gert now, and learned that iproute2 is not >> common on most Unix based platforms, but is a Linux oriented tool. >> So this suggestion makes no longer much sense. > > Actually, I still agree with you that enabling it by default on Linux > is the way forward. > > (Or hook into the netlink interface directly, but I'm not sure > whether this will lead to easier to understand code, and easier to > read log files, than what we have now - where you could, for testing, > run the commands manually to see which ones cause problems)
I agree, but I consider that a packager responsibility. I don't think we should have different defaults in our build tools based on which platform you build on. That will easily get much more chaotic in the long run to maintain properly, especially if you take into consideration cross compilation (like building Windows binaries on Linux). kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9nAN8ACgkQDC186MBRfrrebQCff7xbxJBviodB39vE24GwAOsN ZCwAnRrsMaWrUkSY1IPDzk6PJ+gwxLmJ =ZPFi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
