Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:23:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul Seniura" <pdseniura@techie.com> To: "Phil Helms" <Phil.Helms@cccs.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: re: the port net/tn3270 Message-ID: <20040915212334.DFAC05C8A@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> In-Reply-To: <200409131116.51150.Phil.Helms@cccs.edu> References: <200409131116.51150.Phil.Helms@cccs.edu>
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Hi, > Any luck with fixing tn3270 yet? I am the volunteer to update it. My 'mentor', Mark Linimon, understandably became too busy with other things. Then shortly afterwards and ever since, I have been stuck on getting almost 550 ports caught up... I'm taking advantage of the current freeze. Still have a handful that won't compile with 6-Current's system gcc342. ;) I've mentioned other things getting in the way on the public forums so I won't bore you with rehashing them here. ;) I believe the 'official' open source x3270 project is now located at this website: <http://x3270.bgp.nu/index.html>; possibly mirrored here: <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/index.html>; What I _really_ need is for a legal-person to read the licenses (yes plural: based on the component and people who have worked on and contributed to them). This info can be found here: <http://x3270.bgp.nu/license.html>; The usual legal questions arise: Are we permitted to turn these projects into BSD ports via the skeleton makefile etc.? Are we permitted to automatically fetch the src tarballs? May we build packages (precompiled binaries etc.) for distribution via our usual methods? ... etc. ... (This is the reason I CC'd the ports@ maillist, hoping to get better coverage this way ;) ). I will have more to say & ask after we find out the legal status for this project's use on BSD. To wet your whistle: I want to get this working on OSX-Panther (I use at home, where no li'l-endians are allowed ;) ) as well as other platforms, not just i386, but I have no access to other than i386 ("puny p2") and ppc (a massively upgraded G4 Sawtooth machine). Also, I use a 'real' 3270 keyboard aka GWSP, so this project may need some hackin' into the BSD kernel keyboard routines to function properly (e.g. as a 'real' 3270 terminal would ;) ). A good thing about this project is that it doesn't seem to require the system telnet source code at all. Hint hint. :) A bad thing is that the project plans on adding the graphics support later. I haven't joined their maillist, so I don't know "how much later" this will be or the 'kind' of graphics (programmed symbols? how about GDDM vector commands?). Thank you and/or whoever can delve into its legal stuff, that's all I need help on right now. :) -- Paul Seniura System Specialist (yes on IBM OS/390 z/OS) State of Okla. D.O.T.
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