Re: [RFC] Renaming libnet-1.1.1 to libnet2-1.1.1

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:29:46PM -0500, James Ralston wrote:
> If it's too much of a pain for some apps to support both libnet

So basically you want to break virtually every libnet based application? That just sounds like a *really* bad idea to me.

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> On 2003-03-05 at 15:25:02-0800 Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> > Your approach requires apps using libnet-1.0 have to be modified to

Trivial or not, you're breaking code that works today with the current defacto-standard version of libnet. (As much as I prefer 1.1 over the 1.0, it's hardly standard.) Just because it will be easy for distro maintainers to fix the libnet based apps they ship, doesn't make it the right thing to do. There are a LOT of libnet based apps out there, and I would wager a large portion of them are not shipped by a large portion of OS vendors.  

> On 2003-03-05 at 15:25:02-0800 Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> > However, if you think it's better, I'd be happy to submit a patch

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Personally, I think this is the wrong way to go. There are a lot fewer apps dependant on 1.1 then 1.0. I personally wouldn't mind fixing tcpreplay to support "libnet2.h" or whatever. Definately a lot better then doing a new 1.3 branch release to support the "new old" libnet 1.0.

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