Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:19:57 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Cc: faulkner@devnull, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, faulkner@devnull.lodgenet.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: libforms - thumbs up or down? Message-ID: <9509141819.AA11203@olympus> In-Reply-To: <199509141558.KAA26568@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Sep 14, 95 10:58:06 am
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> > > > > > > * From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) > > > > > > * Would it be retired to the ports? Then it would be available if > > > * anyone wanted it. > > > > > > Don't mean to nit-pick, but if it's broken or not used at all, it's > > > not welcome in ports either. The ports tree is not a retirement > > > home for old source. :) > > > > > > If someone really wants it, and someone (doesn't have to be the same > > > "someone") is committed to make sure it is going to work now and in > > > the future, that's fine, of course. > > > > > > Satoshi > > > > > But didn't I just see that it is used in xfmail (or was that fxmail)? > > no that was a different `libforms', it (xfmail) uses xforms available > from ftp://bloch.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/freeBSD/. In fact for this, > It would be *preferable* to remove /usr/lib/libforms.a from the tree, > 'cause then I could do a fairly clean port of xforms, which is used > by xfmail (and possibly others). At present, I haven't figured out > how to resolve the conflict between the FBSD libforms and xforms. Never mind, then. Boyd > > > All I know now is that is not used by the base system. I agree it should > > be fixed before it goes into ports. > > > > Boyd > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > > > eric. > -- > erich@lodgenet.com > erich@rrnet.com > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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