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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] btrfs-progs: Create libbtrfs and package it up
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:29:53 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:09:06PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> lib contains the objects that used to be $(COMMON_OBJS), but are now
> a full-fledged shared library with supporting includes to be installed
> in /usr/include/btrfs. Headers are also placed in lib so that patches
> indended for the kernel can also apply to the library without a lot of
> effort.

I don't think making this a public library yet is a good idea, the API
will change frequently and it'll be a pain to keep it uptodate.  Just
make it an internal static library for now.