Quoting Nathan Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Such a library already exists in BSD, and need only be packaged for > Debian. In effect, (c) is just an implementation detail of (b) that > allows much of the porting effort to be shared among all the ported > packages. A person willing to put more work into a port might bypass > the compat library. > > Actually, the BSD compat library even provides a degree of binary > compatibility, which we don't need. Much of it could be discarded.
Hey! Good idea! I was just worrying about source compatibility, so it never occurred to me -- but we may have the answer right under our noses already. If Nathan's right, I don't see why we couldn't start producing transitional packages Real Soon Now(tm). Ideally, the goal would be to make every package compile against BSD libc without needing to link in the compat library, but in the mean time we could get a real working system up fairly quickly I should think. Frankly, I think that should be our first goal. Once that is working, we can start worrying about porting each required package to BSD libc natively, then each important package, then each standard package. >From there, we can probably let individual package maintainers worry about whether to provide native BSD libc support or just link against the compat library... -- GT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dreamsmith.org "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
