Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:59:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? Message-ID: <200106181759.NAA58248@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <5l66dutvxh.fsf@assaris.sics.se> References: <20010616201135.A60010@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20010617063845.E53DA39E9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200106180115.VAA51232@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <5l66dutvxh.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
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<<On 18 Jun 2001 03:32:10 +0200, Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > But telnet in historic BSD didn't have sra or any other authentication > mechanism that uses libmp. Or are you saying that we cannot change > `historical BSD software'? No, I'm saying that the author of the SRA patches did the right thing and used the traditional BSD math library when extending the traditional BSD telnet utility. I am furthermore making the point that FreeBSD should continue to ship with a library that provides the `libmp' interface, regardless of how it is implemented internally. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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