[lsb-discuss] Resend: LSB library feature requests
Wichmann, Mats D
mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Sun Aug 26 06:42:57 PDT 2007
This didn't really get any response, I'm trying a second
time to see if we can get some discussion going:
Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> 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 (feature 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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