On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:27 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Is there any preference for fuse3 over fuse2? I moved a package over
to fuse3 yesterday[1]. The API[2] seems a bit cleaner, but it's no
big deal. However it's not really feasible to support both. Since I
maintain several other fuse-using packages in Fedora, we have to pick
one or the other.
I notice also that almost no other packages have moved to fuse3:
$ sudo dnf repoquery --whatrequires 'libfuse.so.2()(64bit)' --qf
'%{name}' | sort -u | wc -l
62
$ sudo dnf repoquery --whatrequires 'libfuse3.so.3()(64bit)' --qf
'%{name}' | sort -u | wc -l
7
Are we going to deprecate fuse2 at some point? Encourage upstreams to
upgrade?
I think we should encourage upgrade/migration because I'm not sure
fuse2 is particularly actively being maintianed.
One other minor point: BSDs can emulate fuse (which is essentially a
Linux-only API), but their emulation seems to be of fuse2 only.
Probably not a huge concern from a Fedora PoV?