libifconfig non-private in 13?

Kristof Provost kp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 27 14:15:25 UTC 2020


On 26 Dec 2020, at 22:33, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 5:18 AM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> 
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Libifconfig was marked as private (and experimental) back in 2016.
>>> It’s since made some strides and has grown a few users. Ifconfig 
>>> now depends
>>> on it as well.
>>>
>>> While it’s far from finished it’d be more useful for some users 
>>> if it were
>>> public. That would at least imply some level of API/ABI stability, 
>>> which is
>>> why I’m bringing it up here before pulling the trigger.
>>>
>>> Does anyone see any reasons to not do this?
>>>
>>
>> I would go the otherway around, any reason to make it public yet? if 
>> yes they go
>> ahead, if no keep it private ;)
>
> I would say it is nice to have some scripting language bindings to it,
> although I'm not sure if this is possible and a feasible usage.
>
I’m sure it’s possible. Ryan actually done some of that work: 
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25447

Maybe we should merge that too.

Best regards,
Kristof


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