Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-3.2 v2 00/30] slirp: make it again a standalone project

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> 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..

Hmm, I'd skip the submodule step if the long-term plan is to use slirp
as pkg-config detectable dependency (like most other libs).

cheers,
  Gerd