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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: compile_et & mk_cmds?
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> > Could compile_et be moved to eBones,
> 
> Erm, why?  It's a general-purpose utility/library, used by many libraries
> developed at MIT.

Is it used at all by FreeBSD?

> > and what is the purpose of mk_cmds?
> 
> It generates a command table for the `subsystem' library (libss), for
> which the same comment applies.  I would like to replace it with
> something a little more modern (probably tcl), but this will take some
> time and work that I'm not prepared to spend right now.

Is it used by *anything* in FreeBSD?  If not, why do we have it?  We
recently moved out libforms since it wasn't used, so the same arguement
should apply to libss.


Nate