Re: huge top extension

On 3/15/22 6:12 AM, Craig Small wrote:
> 
>     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?

Hi Craig,

There's nothing major left from my perspective.  I think the sooner it 
gets to Debian experimental the sooner we get some meaningful perspective.


> 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).

I'd love to hear from others as well.  But so far we've only heard from 
one early adopter and that was way back in December of 2020.

https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/limited-usability-of-the-library-libprocps-from-an-external-software,2


> 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.

Master branch top can display 59 fields.  Newlib top can display 76 
fields.  Those 17 extra top fields all *could* have been offered without 
changes to the API.

I think that speaks volumes about the current API.

Regards,

Jim

p.s. did you make any progress on the 'make dist' issue?