Re: [Opensc-devel] RFC: Renaming engine_pkcs11.so to libpkcs11.so

[David W. <dw...@in...>]

On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 16:20 -0500, Douglas E Engert wrote:
> OK, you have answered my questions.

Excellent :)

So, any thoughts on how (if) to transition to 'libpkcs11.so'?

One option is just to go ahead and rename it. That means that existing
users would need to change their configuration to reflect the new
filename. And in fact *mostly* those users will have p11-kit and will
be able to migrate to just doing things the simple way — just
specifying the engine by name (which will now work) and using a
RFC7512 PKCS#11 URI.

It's not nice to *force* them to switch though. Having a symlink might
be nice, but I can't see how to do that since the makefiles don't even
seem to ™know* what the .so extension is on a given platform. We only
ask for 'engine_pkcs11.la'.

In the Fedora packaging for now I *have* just made a symlink, but I
really dislike doing anything only in the distro rather than fixing it
upstream.

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dwmw2