NOTES_TO_PACKAGE_MAINTAINERS

   1 To: distribution package maintainers
   2
   3 Those are a few things about this project that you should know.
   4
   5 I surely welcome patches to support both in a better way.
   6
   7 DO NOT ship kronosnetd. It's an experimental piece of super
   8 crappy code. IF you decide to ship it anyway, you get to
   9 be also the upstream maintainer :-) you have been warned.
  10
  11 libtap is a simple commodity library used only by kronosnetd.
  12 I don't mind to support it, but don't ship just for the fun of it.
  13 It has no users, that I know of, outside of kronosnetd.
  14
  15 libknet is still under heavy development. There might be more
  16 onwire network changes that could make current version
  17 incompatible with newer versions. Make sure to warn your users
  18 about it. Plan is to release a stable version (1.0) when
  19 we are confident that the current implementation is stable enough.
  20
  21 libknet has a lot of build dependencies due to its modular
  22 implementation. It does not, however, link with all those libraries
  23 but uses a dlopen model to save runtime resources and provide
  24 flexibility to users to install only the libraries they are
  25 planning to use. Make sure that you do build with all feature
  26 enabled (compatible with your distribution licencing/patent
  27 policy of course) and tune your packaging to Recommend/Suggest
  28 the external libraries.
  29
  30 Thanks
  31 Your upstream maintainers