Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> writes: > Hi, > > Based-on: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/qemu.git/ slirp branch > > This series goal is to allow building libslirp as an independent library. > > While looking at making SLIRP a seperate running process, I thought > that having an independent library from QEMU would be a first step. > > There has been some attempts to make slirp a seperate project in the past. > (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01092.html) > Unfortunately, they forked from QEMU and didn't provide enough > compatibility for QEMU to make use of it (in particular, vmstate > handling was removed, they lost git history etc). Furthermore, they > are not maintained as far as I can see. > > I would propose to make slirp a seperate project, that can initially > be used by QEMU as a submodule, keeping Makefile.objs until a proper > shared library with stability guarantees etc is ready.. > > The subproject could created by preserving git tags, and cleaning up the code > style, this way: > > git filter-branch --tree-filter "if ls * 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then clang-format > -i * /dev/null; fi " -f --subdirectory-filter "slirp" --prune-empty > --tag-name-filter cat -- --all > (my clang-format > https://gist.github.com/elmarco/cb20c8d92007df0e2fb8a2404678ac73) > > What do you think?
Has the slirp code been improved to be generally useful? I still got it filed under "friends don't let friends use that, except for testing"...
