[lsb-discuss] LSB library feature requests
Wichmann, Mats D
mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Wed Aug 15 12:55:13 PDT 2007
As a followon to today's call, I guess I should lay out some
pending requests here, so we can get some discussion restarted.
These are for libraries, not for individual interfaces.
Possible outcomes could be (in informal terms :-)
1. hustle like mad to get into 3.2
1a. get into 3.2 as optional (mature, but not in
enough distros that would be 3.x conforming)
2. needs more discussion / not ready, target 4.0
3. significant issues, target later than 4.0
4. forget it
These all seem to be frequent requests; I've added
a one-sentence commentary to some.
* libdbus
* cairo, perhaps pangocairo
* libnsl, libresolv
- with few exceptions, apps don't seem to need these
except some direct yp/nis access; there's no current
intent to add nis support to LSB
* libasound
- Multimedia workgroup was supposed to make a proposal,
we should probably wait for this
* Qt4 -> mandatory
- we seem to be waiting for improved test maturity,
and ????
* Printing support libraries
Two categories: a printing convenience API (subset
of libcups), and a set of libraries that would be
used for portable printer drivers (see LSB Printing
wiki page for more details here).
- Scheduled to add for 3.2, but there have been no code
submissions yet
* libGLU
- the improved import tools which will let us reasonably
add a C++ library are not ready yet, this should
probably be pushed to "consider for 4.0"
* crypto/ssl (OpenSSL or other)
- we're waiting for something, preferably a 1.0 release
which would signal upstream thinks things are stable
enough to "standardize"
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