On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Thomas D. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> > One important question is left: how would you suggest to name the
> > packages?
> > For more than 10 years, the rfc3195 component came under the name of
> > "liblogging", so I would assume it's a bad idea to rename this one. Does
> > this mean we end up with
> >
> > * liblogging (rfc3195)
> > * liblogging-stdlog
> > * liblogging-journalemu
> >
> > If so, I should probably also change the names used in PKGCONFIG,
> > configure
> > scripts etc. That probably means I need to do yet another rsyslog 7.4
> > release but if it takes that to clean up the mess, it's probably worth
> it.
> >
> > Feedback is highly appreciated. This time I want it right ;)
>
> So this looks like "liblogging" is the "base" and "liblogging-stdlog" or
> "liblogging-journalemu" is a component/plugin. More plugins or new modules
> may come.
>
> But according to your comment, "liblogging" is not the base (=not required
> for liblogging-{stdlog,journalemu}).
>
> You also said that the RFC3195 componenet is now obsolete (e.g. shouldn't
> be
> required by most users).
>
> Changing the name of "liblogging" to "liblogging-rfc3195" (which seems to
> be
> the right name from current view) is not an option, because it would break
> existing old versions depending on the old name and it should be avoided to
> patch old stable software. Right?
>
> From my understanding, the "plugin/module concept" is new. Wouldn't it be
> an
> option to rename the new, not yet used library version to "liblogging2" so
> we can start with the right naming from beginning (without breaking legacy
> software)?
>
> So we would end with something like
>
> /usr/
> |-- include
> | |-- liblogging2
> | |-- rfc3195.h
> | |-- stdlog.h
> | |-- journalemu.h
> | |-- settings.h
> | |-- srAPI.h
> | |-- syslogmessage.h
> |-- lib
> | |-- liblogging2-rfc3195.so
> | |-- liblogging2-stdlog.so
> | |-- liblogging2-journalemu.so
> | |-- pkgconfig
> | |-- liblogging2.pc
>
> and configure scripts would look for
> "liblogging2{,-rfc3195,-stdlog,-journalemu}".
>
>
>
Ah, this makes perfect sense. If nobody objects, I'll tomorrow start
implement that scheme.
The original liblogging actually was at level 0.x.y, so I'll go for
liblogging1-...
Thanks!
Rainer
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