Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:17:56 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? Message-ID: <200106190615.f5J6FF693008@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <200106181759.NAA58248@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ; from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:59:32 -0400." References: <200106181759.NAA58248@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> 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. Strongly disagree. The libmp interface is not very fault-tolerant, and not well used (anymore). The bignum (BN) bits of libcrypto are much more fault tolerant and ubiquitous. Time to throw out the trash. The "its traditionally part of BSD" argument holds no water - the BSD books that I have point to MH and Emacs in the same way. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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