Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:57:48 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> Cc: Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com> Subject: Re: I have some questions about telnet/telnetd/libtelnet/tn3270 and why FreeBSD is different than other BSDs in this regard Message-ID: <20040314115748.GA9984@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040314050137.GC978@alex.lan> References: <20040309224348.9C55B5C2B@techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us> <20040309232317.GA24012@alex.lan> <20040312033416.769CE1171DC@scifi.homeip.net> <20040314045204.GB978@alex.lan> <20040314050137.GC978@alex.lan>
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On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:01:37AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:52:04AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:34:16PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote:
> > > I hope this is not too technical:
> > > All BSDs (except for this 'Free' one) presently have tn3270.c
> > > together with telnet.c for reasons that become apparent when
> > > studying how it works and how it is compiled etc. As they are
> > > presently written, all of telnet[d].c and tn3270.c must use the
> > > same macros and other source files from the same 'level' subdir.=20
> > > That means if something changes for the sake of 'telnet', it had
> > > better work with 'tn3270' also.
>=20
> Yes, this is too technical. I would have to study the file, which i'm
> not going to. If you say that it couldn't posibly be a port, like perl5
> can, then i will take your word for this.
This shouldn't be an impassable obstacle to making a tn3270 port --
there is precedent in the ports tree for having the port require
various parts of the system sources to be present in order to build.
See, for instance, the net/ng_netflow or the devel/linuxthreads ports.
Having a good, well maintained port available will go a long way
towards persuading most committers that the tn3270 application should
be restored to the base system. Not all the way, but it will make a
difference.
Cheers,
Matthew
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