Renaming our threads libs

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:39:09PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, LI Xin wrote:
>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>> We have little time before 7.0-RELEASE to get this right..
>>> 
>>> For consistency and expectations from users (especially of other OS's),
>>> should we ask RE@ to rename libpthread to libkse (or whatever) and rename
>>> libthr to libpthread?  Remember - what we release 7.0 will be burned into
>>> folks Makefile's and vernacular.
>> 
>> Do you mean repocopy from src/lib/libpthread -> src/lib/libkse?  Because
>> libpthread.so.X is now installed as a symbolic link to actual default
>> threading library I think it would be an overkill to rename libthr to
>> libpthread, but to reduce confusion it might be better to rename
>> lib/libpthread to lib/libkse.
> 
> I think it's fine just the way it is.  Everyone currently knows
> libpthread and libthr by name.

Everyone that has followed FreeBSD 7 from start to finish.

There actually was confusion over this topic at the FreeBSD using company
I work for.

> I don't think you need to repo copy the src tree
> to match, unless there is too much heartburn over having the
> src directory named differently from the library.

As I mentioned - I think there is unnecessary heartburn.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)