[Swan-dev] [Swan-commit] Changes to ref refs/heads/master

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> On 28 February 2016 at 18:39, Paul Wouters <paul at vault.libreswan.fi> wrote:
>> New commits:
>> commit 690fc62ba42febcb5b7c7040b6027756fe3c318f
>> Author: Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com>
>> Date:   Sun Feb 28 18:39:05 2016 -0500
>>
>>     testing: Added basic-pluto-00 which runs the lib/libswan tests
>
> Something on my build todo list is to try convincing everyone that
> libswan should be abandoned; instead build: libpluto.a in
> programs/pluto and link whack, cavp, pluto, and the above tests
> against that.  I guess this is as good a trigger as any for that
> discussion :-)
>
> It's not that I've something against libraries, just that here, the
> effort seems to have stalled so badly and for so long that it now just
> creates confusion.  If a library or libraries is really desirable then
> first straighten out pluto.

How is that different, apart from the directory location?

If we would redo things, I'd like to create a shared library that is an
API to pluto that other software could use directly, instead of everyone
writing their own whacking wrappers.

Paul