From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 11 15:00:42 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA07657 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:00:42 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA07651 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:00:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA09158 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:00:36 -0700 To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: libforms - thumbs up or down? Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:00:36 -0700 Message-ID: <9156.810856836@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The current libforms does not work in -current; the only available example hangs. This makes me wonder if we shouldn't just remove libforms entirely since _nothing_ currently uses it. It's a nice idea and all, but we have to be a little mercenary about not keeping things around that just never quite made it into the spotlight for some reason. I nuked my own `dmenu' utility out for this reason, and libftp went as well when it was found to be insufficient for today's needs (passive mode ftp, for one thing). We should either improve libforms enough so that it's ready to use in *something* FreeBSD related or appreciate that it's not going to happen in the forseeable future and nuke it for now. We can always bring it back if we find a use for it and if we DON'T find a use for it then we've also not got the extra bloat in our source tree. Useful bloat I'm usually in favor of, bloat unused by any sort of application or client I'm not. Jordan