Re: Our failure on tracing tools unification

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

mingo wrote:

> [...]  One thing that would suck is perf being bound by various
> versions of this library floating out there.

Could the event parser shared library be ABI-preserving?  If so, what
would perf have to fear?

> [...] We had nothing but pain from external libraries so far [...]

If the elfutils, newt, gtk, bfd, iberty, zlib, python libraries didn't
contribute useful and un-rewriteable functionality, perf would not be
using them.


- FChE
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