On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:23:43AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Edward Pilatowicz writes: > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~edp/onnv-headers1/ > > 6851400 SUNWzoneint files should be moved to SUNWzoneu > > > > i'm eliminating the SUNWzoneint package because there really is no good > > reason not to ship these header files and lint libraries. > > They weren't shipped because the libraries are Consolidation Private. > Per the library best practices document: > > http://sac.sfbay/cgi-bin/bp.cgi?NAME=Libraries.bp > > W3 says that we shouldn't (at least) ship compilation symlinks for > private libraries. >
sure, it says that. and then the first NOTE says you can ship them to simplify compilation. i thought about removing these links, but then i looked at libzfs and libdtrace as my examples and those seem to have the "convience" compilation links as well. that said, personally i don't really care if they are present or not as long as things continue to compile. if you'd like i could try removing them and seeing how builds go. > Because they are contracted for use outside of ON, they were put into > SUNWzoneint for build machines. I agree that it's annoying at best, > but it is part of the current "best practices." > i know why they weren't shipped. but we already ship lots of libraries + lint libraries + headers files for stuff that only contains private interfaces. also, W3 does have plenty of NOTEs which document cases where shipping these things is appropriate. i believe that in this case shipping this stuff is appropriate. > > they are > > already needed for building the caiman gate, and i want to use them for > > functionality in the ips gate as well. > > So ... are these libraries now some form of Public interface? Or will > IPS and Caiman have contracts, and is this just an exception to the > usual rules? > IPS is a development project that is targeting the ON gate, but due to artifacts of the current development process, it is not currently based on the ON gate. hence i don't think that IPS needs a contract to access ON Consolidation Private interfaces. i don't know where Caiman plans to integrate. i would guess ON (since the install gate is going away), but perhaps due to nostalgia we'll get a new install gate? ;) ed _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
