Re: [bug-inetutils] Restoration of ping.

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    Possibly, eventually some of the libraries in Inetutils could be
>    made into installed shared libraries, for any application to use.
>
> Mmm...  Not sure, we'd need to keep APIs, maybe even ABIs stable if we
> start doing that.

Yes, of course, so making the current helper libraries installed
libraries is a non-starter -- however, if we could clean up the
functionality and create a usable API/ABI for it, I believe several of
the features in InetUtils would be useful to have in the form of a
library.

/Simon