[systemd-devel] Moving systemd-bootchart to a standalone repository

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog]

Hi,

src/shared & src/basic have very useful code that upstream have been static linking to most binaries. My understanding is that we haven’t been feeling comfortable about the API to make these paths a standalone library (or include them in libsystemd).

Now that we started duplicating the code outside of systemd main repo, wouldn’t it be wise to make it a library even if it was something like libsystemd_onlyandonlyinternal.so.

For people who can follow upstream’s speed and catch up with API changes we would gain:

A) No duplication of useful code.
B) Reduce the binary sizes.

Umut

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Daniel Mack <daniel at zonque.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> [I've put all people in Cc who have had more than one commit related to
> systemd-bootchart in the past]
> 
> As part of our spring cleaning, we've been thinking about giving
> systemd-bootchart a new home, in a new repository of its own. I've been
> working on this and put the result here:
> 
>  https://github.com/systemd/systemd-bootchart
> 
> This repository contains a stripped down set of the utility functions we
> have in src/shared and src/basic in systemd, with most of those which
> bootchart doesn't use removed. The man page and service file etc. are
> all in the new repository. A new GitHub team was created for maintainers
> of that code, and I'm willing to add more people to it, just let me
> know. Auke, you are the official maintainer of the thing, so I'd put you
> in that group anyway.
> 
> I have a local patch that removes the current sources from systemd, but
> before I put that into a pull request, I'd appreciate some feedback, so
> please let me know if the standalone version of that tool works for you.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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