Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 03:21:07PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
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> IIRC we still don't have an openrc-replacement script in the tree for
> the /etc/init.d/function.sh symlink to target.  Since libeinfo is
> already public, why not instead of making it private we go the other
> way -- keep it public, package it out separately in the tree, and make
> openrc (and others from bug 373219 and elsewhere) depend on it?

Because it is a c library, which means that another program would have
to be written which provides the einfo/ewarn/etc shell commands and a
functions.sh wrapper so the shell scripts can use it.
 
 Since the consumers on bug 373219 are shell scripts, why have the
 complexity of a wrapper and not just provide a shell script?

 I know I have been slow about it. mostly because I've been doing a lot
 of work on OpenRC lately wrt bug #482396. That should be wrapping up
 soon.


> Out of curiosity, what is the reasoning behind making these libs private?

Well, the thought has changed slightly. librc can't be made private
currently because of openrc-settingsd. libeinfo, on the other hand, does
not have any known consumers, so there is no reason to keep it as a
library.

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