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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: libforms - thumbs up or down?
To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:19:57 -0500 (CDT)
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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
> 
> 


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