[ovs-dev] ovsdb-idl

[Papudippu, Sreedhar Reddy]

Hello all,

I have been wondering why doesn open-vswitch code  links the entire "lib/libopenvswitch.la" into every binary in the code.

Isn't that very in-efficient? Shouldn't we create separate libraries based on some logical divide, and then link the libraries based on the need.

We should have created the following libraries in the source code.
1)      LACP.a.
2)      Sflow.a
3)      Vlog.a
4)      Ovsdb_client.a
5)      Etc......

That will give flexibility to developers who want to create their own tools based on open-vswitch code.

With the current design, a developer has to link almost the entire "lib/libopenvswitch.la" even in a small tool which uses ovsdb.

Can someone through some history behind this design.

If there is no specific reason, can I separate these things into small logical libraries and submit the patch?

Regards
Sreedhar
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From: Papudippu, Sreedhar Reddy
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 3:10 PM
To: dev at openvswitch.org
Subject: ovsdb-idl


Hello all,

I was wondering why "ovsdb-idl" client API code is not made as a separate independent library.

Assume if someone wants to write a new client for the ovsdb-idl, how will he/she link the code to the source library?
How will he/she get the get the header file definitions?

Regards
Sreedhar