Re: Library namespace conflicts
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:40:43AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
>
> I grant you that, this piece of software is a young 'un;
> although I'm surprised that this didn't come up any sooner. (Lucky us.)
>
> I don't think either library has more than one piece of software
> that currently requires it; but this could change for libdnet.sf.net in
> the future, seeing as there is activity on the nmap mailing lists.
> Since you've had the name for such a long time, I'd like to defer
> judgement to you. What do you think is a reasonable way to handle this?
> Rename one of the libraries and tweak code that depends on it? Rename
> one of the libraries and make them both conflict with each other?
> Provide libdnet.sf.net in fragroute and link statically?
As the man page at http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/dnet.3.txt refers to the
library as "dnet - dumb networking library" how about renaming it libdumbnet?
:-)
patrick
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