From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 16:51:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BFF37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B264343FAF for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from apeiron@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (pcp01380957pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net [68.81.162.166]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HBC009OET265H@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 19:51:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 19:52:06 -0500 From: Christopher Nehren Subject: pom(6) doesn't accept date arguments whereas NetBSD's does To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <1046998325.53638.248.camel@prophecy> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've compared the versions of pom(6) on FreeBSD and NetBSD (which is also the one installed on Debian GNU/Linux), and the NetBSD one accepts a date argument. Why hasn't this version been imported into FreeBSD? I can see nothing in terms of licensing (or anything else for that matter, including a mailing list archive search for relevant issues) which would prevent it from being directly imported, without any changes to anything else in the build system. I've used it as a drop-in replacement on my system without difficulty. I've also thought of making a separate port of it, but it'd be much easier to just have it as part of the base system (no, it's not installed by the freebsd-games port). For those who are curious, the NetBSD version may be obtained at ftp://{MIRROR_SITE_URL}/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/games/pom/pom.c . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message