From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 17 8:52:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AE4A37B405 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 08:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 4196 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Jun 2001 15:48:41 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:48:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph A. Mallett" X-X-Sender: To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Peter Wemm , Steve Kargl , Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? In-Reply-To: <20010617182256.A17724@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > If we do need some of the functionality of libgmp in the base-system, > then we really should import some newer version of libgmp, instead of > trying to make our own new library. I dont really like reinventing > wheels :) > Unless you are the one charged with doing the work, you shouldn't complain about the circumstances of the job. If someone wants to implement something which already exists with a good reason for doing so, let them. It can't hurt. Honestly, the odds that you would end up doing this, are NULL. Giving concise reasons as to why it doesn't need replaced would be nice, rather than "why not bring in more vendor code". -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ http://srcsys.org ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ FreeBSD, NetBSD, & xMach User; (Obj)C(++) Coder ] [ http://xMach.org ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message