NetworkManager/src/libnm-client-aux-extern
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We use clang-format for automatic formatting of our source files.
Since clang-format is actively maintained software, the actual
formatting depends on the used version of clang-format. That is
unfortunate and painful, but really unavoidable unless clang-format
would be strictly bug-compatible.

So the version that we must use is from the current Fedora release, which
is also tested by our gitlab-ci. Previously, we were using Fedora 34 with
clang-tools-extra-12.0.1-1.fc34.x86_64.

As Fedora 35 comes along, we need to update our formatting as Fedora 35
comes with version "13.0.0~rc1-1.fc35".
An alternative would be to freeze on version 12, but that has different
problems (like, it's cumbersome to rebuild clang 12 on Fedora 35 and it
would be cumbersome for our developers which are on Fedora 35 to use a
clang that they cannot easily install).

The (differently painful) solution is to reformat from time to time, as we
switch to a new Fedora (and thus clang) version.
Usually we would expect that such a reformatting brings minor changes.
But this time, the changes are huge. That is mentioned in the release
notes [1] as

  Makes PointerAligment: Right working with AlignConsecutiveDeclarations. (Fixes https://llvm.org/PR27353)

[1] https://releases.llvm.org/13.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#clang-format
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meson.build build/meson: cleanup libnm-client-aux-extern 2021-02-28 18:56:08 +01:00
nm-default-client.h build: move "libnm/" to "src/" and split it 2021-02-24 12:48:37 +01:00
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README.md all: add some README.md files describing the purpose of our sources 2021-08-19 17:51:11 +02:00

libnm-client-aux-extern

libnm-client-aux-extern is a static library that:

  • uses the public parts of "libnm"
  • that can also be statically linked into other users of libnm.

Basically, it is a static library with utility functions that extends libnm.

That means:

  • you can use it everywhere where you dynamically link with libnm.

Also, since libnm-client-aux-extern itself only uses public (stable) API of libnm, you theoretically can copy the sources into your own source tree.

This makes it very similar in purpose to ../libnmc-base/. The difference might be that this one is smaller and that you could easier copy+paste this to a libnm application outside this source tree.