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Date:      Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: libh src/ import
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010906120537.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010906023247.A11776@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>

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On 06-Sep-01 Alexander Langer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> How are peoples feelings about an import of libh into our src tree,
> in order to push the development?

As I said on IRC in an opinion that no one else seems to share, libh is useful
in a wider regard than just FreeBSD, and I think it should be a separate
project that gets vendor imported into src/contrib.  Let's face it guys,
FreeBSD doesn't have a lot of GUI people running around, and if libh is going
to fly, it needs developers.  IMHO, the best way to get developers for it is to
not make it look like some FreeBSD-only thing, but instead to make it inviting
to other developers.  To that end, I think libh really belongs on Sourceforge
as its own project, and something that goes in src/contrib along with Turbo
Vision and Tcl when the time comes for it to replace sysinstall and hte package
system.  If it is imported directly into the tree and not into src/contrib,
then it shouldn't go in src/release.  Sysinstall didn't belong there, and no
other code does either.  It's a utility not only for installation, but also
post-install configuration, thus the libs would need to be in src/lib/ and the
binaries in src/usr.sbin or wherever.  src/release would be the absolute worst
place to put it.

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