OpenSS7 STREAMS Binary Compatibility Modules -- things to do.  2007-06-24
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 Current Plan
.............

The OpenSS7 Project has made several stabs at making this package
available and providing it in a production grade form.  All attempts
are currently incomplete.  All in all there does not appear to be
sufficient interest in this capability to actually fund the work.
Therefore, this package will remain incomplete until some entity can
justify funding the remainder of the development.  The OpenSS7 Project
remains committed to the open source model and providing this support
runs somewhat against that.  However, if your organization has a
pressing need for this capability and can offer funding for its
completion, please contact the project on the openss7 mailing list.

 Things to Do
.............

   - Testing.  This package is completely untested.  One way to test
     LiS compatibility is to take a set of frozen binary modules and
     drivers from the LiS release and place them in a test directory.

   - The strbcm package is currently incomplete.  The purpose of the
     package was to move STREAMS binary compatibility module
     capabilities outside of the STREAMS release package so as to allow
     them to be used with both LiS and Linux Fast-STREAMS.  As Linux
     Fast-STREAMS has already shown superior to LiS in terms of both
     performance and conformance, it is no longer necessary to keep
     these packages separate and they can be combined once again (or
     still) with Linux Fast-STREAMS.

     This package; however, might has some use still outside of Linux
     Fast-STREAMS if only because it provides a separable way of
     incorporating 3rd party binary modules.

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