Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-3.2 00/41] RFC: slirp: make it again a standalone project

[Markus Armbruster]

Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Based-on: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/qemu.git/ slirp branch
>
> This series goal is to allow building libslirp as an independent library.
>
> While looking at making SLIRP a seperate running process, I thought
> that having an independent library from QEMU would be a first step.
>
> There has been some attempts to make slirp a seperate project in the past.
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01092.html)
> Unfortunately, they forked from QEMU and didn't provide enough
> compatibility for QEMU to make use of it (in particular, vmstate
> handling was removed, they lost git history etc). Furthermore, they
> are not maintained as far as I can see.
>
> I would propose to make slirp a seperate project, that can initially
> be used by QEMU as a submodule, keeping Makefile.objs until a proper
> shared library with stability guarantees etc is ready..
>
> The subproject could created by preserving git tags, and cleaning up the code 
> style, this way:
>
> git filter-branch --tree-filter "if ls * 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then clang-format 
> -i * /dev/null; fi " -f --subdirectory-filter "slirp" --prune-empty 
> --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
> (my clang-format 
> https://gist.github.com/elmarco/cb20c8d92007df0e2fb8a2404678ac73)
>
> What do you think?

Has the slirp code been improved to be generally useful?  I still got it
filed under "friends don't let friends use that, except for testing"...