[ovs-dev] OVN architecture

Thomas Graf tgraf at noironetworks.com
Mon Jan 19 22:38:48 UTC 2015


On 01/19/15 at 10:01am, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I realize that a shared library was mentioned elsethread as having some
> importance, but I don't understand why.  ovn-controller and the other C
> components of OVN will be just as useful whether they are statically or
> dynamically linked to the OVS libraries.

>From my perspective, this exclusively benefits the distributions as it
decouples OVN and OVS releases. Otherwise, a bug in the static library
would require distributing a new OVN package. From a developer
perspective, there should be no difference at all.



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