Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2119] Linux Kit Production

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting James Cameron (cameron@stl.dec.com):
> Comments?

There is a lot of shared code. I'd like to see some of the shared coded put
into libraries. Maybe a server library and a client library?

The problem is the shared code is compiled once for the "server" and then once
with -DROBOT (or some sort of -Ddefine), which actually alters the 
funcationality. Thus, making shared code hard to share.

Is there a way to put the shared code into libraries without breaking lots of
things?

I know I mentioned this before, but can we make a shared version of the RSA
library. 1 version is the US RSA, the other version is the PGP version and a
3rd version of just dummy functions.

If I understand it right, then we could distribute the server with the dummy
RSA shared library and if the server admini wants RSA they would have
to grab the US or PGP version of RSA and just install that library over the
top of the dummy library.

Is this possible, or are the function signatures a copyright thing too?

I would love to see a Vanilla RPM for linux. I'd do the Solaris RPM
(http://www.solaris.rpm.org) spec file if we go down this path. As stated
above I'd like to see some sort of libraries for development and package them
that way.


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