From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 18 23:15:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8D937B406 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5J6FF693008; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:15:19 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200106190615.f5J6FF693008@gratis.grondar.za> To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? References: <200106181759.NAA58248@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200106181759.NAA58248@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ; from Garrett Wollman "Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:59:32 -0400." Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:17:56 +0200 From: Mark Murray 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 > 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