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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:53:14 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org, eivind@freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au, brian@utell.co.uk
Subject:   Re: Include files (in ppp)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.970228094944.7216A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970227142902.00bccd30@dimaga.com>

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You might want to compare with what's on IIJ's server, ftp.iij.ad.jp.  As
I recall tony-o wrote IIJ-PPP and he is no longer at IIJ.  I haven't been
following it so I'm not sure how actively it's maintained.

Regards,


Mike

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> At 01:23 AM 2/27/97 +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
> >I'd suggest one of the following:
> >
> >- Leave it as it is (with osreldate.h adding partially to the chaos)
> >- Remove all of the #ifs buts and whys (rationalle: If osreldate isn't
> >  in there, All the #if BSD etc stuff is useless anyway)
> 
> I'd say this depend on a few things:
> (A) How many patches to IIJ-PPP do we recieve?  If there are a lot of
> these, removing #ifdefs might disrupt merging.  (Doesn't look like it from
> the amount of commits, though.)
> (B) Is IIJ-PPP actively developed anywhere outside FreeBSD?  See (A).
> (PPP+pktAlias doesn't count - I'll merge any changes from -current)
> (C) Is IIJ-PPP from FreeBSD actively used by non-FreeBSD people?  In this
> case, we could pay them the courtesy of leaving it in.
> 
> If none of these factors give us trouble, I'd say we cut the #ifdef's -
> they clutter the code.  However, the final choice is in Brian's hands - as
> well as the responsibility for adding himself as maintainer in the Makefile
> ;-)
> 
> 
> Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org
> 




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