fuse2 vs fuse3
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?
One other minor point: BSDs can emulate fuse (which is essentially a
Linux-only API), but their emulation seems to be of fuse2 only.
Rich.
[1] https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/c74c7d7f01975e708b510e518895088...
[2] https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/tag/fuse-3.0.0
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