Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:58:06 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), faulkner@devnull.lodgenet.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: libforms - thumbs up or down? Message-ID: <199509141558.KAA26568@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:43:54 CDT." <9509141543.AA10094@olympus>
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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. > 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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