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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:34:06 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Importing lukemftpd 
Message-ID:  <20010717053406.B6C723E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010716212454.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>; from mheffner@novacoxmail.com on "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:24:54 -0400 (EDT)"

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Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com> writes:
> a) our ftpd and NetBSD ftpd be merged as best as possible to keep features of
> both, but try to follow NetBSD's ftpd development in our tree?
> 
> b) we import NetBSD's ftpd AS IS and treat it like vender code with regular
> imports, but break backwards compatibility?
> 
> c) we not do anything at all and leave our ftpd as it is?
> 
> 
> (a) of course is the best of both worlds, but it would require more work and
> might make maintainership harder in the future.
> 
> Please let me know what people think about this.

I think (a) with a twist is the best option; the twist is that we
should try to get as much of our local features into lukeftpd's
distribution as possible.  This doesn't help the "more work" problem
at all, but solves the "maintainership" problem quite nicely.

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