Re: huge top extension

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 07:35, Jim Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I finally came up with a solution that provides top with essentially an
> unlimited capacity for new fields.  And patch #0004 shows how easy it is
> to expand beyond my current provision of 100.
>
I think the only certainty is that there will be more fields that top might
be interested in so its a good idea to expand this now.


> p.s. any estimate on when newlib might be born?
>
 The next Debian freeze is likely to be very early in 2023, probably
January. I'd like to have newlib in sometime before that and before that
happens I need to get it into Debian experimental.
Is there anything major left to do before it gets released?

I'd like to hear from other distributions out there if they're here. newlib
handles a lot of the newer fields way better and is a good cleanup of the
procps library (though perhaps there is some internal work needed).
The main thing is, will the API need any more changes before we get it out?
We're starting at library versions 0:0:0 so hopefully it doesn't creep up
too quickly.

 - Craig