From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 18 10:59:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CB137B401; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA58248; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:59:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:59:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200106181759.NAA58248@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Assar Westerlund Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? 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> 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 < 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