In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:02:06 -0500, Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
jaltman> I think there are two very different markets. One is the jaltman> cygwin (unix on windows) environments which expect things to jaltman> be named the way they are on Unix/Linux. The other is the jaltman> native windows environment which expects naming to be as it jaltman> has been on Windows. I think both need to be supported jaltman> therefore there should not be a name collision. I entirely agree with the idea of following the standard set in the environment you work in. However, if we look at the file name without the extension, I'm only aware of a naming standard on Unix (libraries start with "lib") and VMS (it's a little bit more complex, and includes things like a prefix for the utility or language the library is connected to, and usually includes the word "SHR" for shareable libraries, although I see a lot of variety still...). I'm not aware of any naming convention for Windows libraries, and haven't been able to get a straight answer when I ask (and if you look at the variants of LIBC that comes with MSVC, you see a bit of variety there as well). On Windows, there's the added complexity of using different run-time libraries depending on if you're using threads or not, if you built in debug mode or not, and other details I'm not aware of. I've heard suggestions of creating several variants of the OpenSSL libraries that would be used in parallell with the different MSVC libraries, and that's where a naming convention is becoming even more important. Added to this problem, we have the different register sizes on different CPUs (32-bit, 64-bit, and whatever will follow), which seems to be difficult to intermix in the same library, and thereby requires another bit of information that may need to be included in library file names, and as far as I understand, no-one has yet come up with a commonly accepted standard. I would love it if someone could point out a standard for each operating system family (Unix, Windows, VMS, ...) and if we could figure out a way to adhere to that in a meaningful way. Thoughts? Opinions? Wishes to strangle me for sturring this up :-)? ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 3 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
