On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:44:57PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote: > and my own dissatisfaction has reached the point where I decided to raise > the question. The question of replacing proplib(3) with a better library. > There were ideas by some developers to write a new library from scratch. > The FreeBSD project has recently developed a general purpose key-value pair > library, which is quite similar to nvpair library in Solaris.
Isn't proplib(3) quite heavily used throughout the system, both kernel space and user space? It won't be a trivial task to fully make this change, is all I'm saying. I say don't get rid of proplib(3) entirely, how about moving it to pkgsrc at least? -Christian
