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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:33:57 -0400
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        marino@freebsd.org
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r367789 - in head: . dns dns/posadis games games/linux-savage net net/etherboot
Message-ID:  <7BE81AFC-E22A-4E39-8FC7-FF6E534447BC@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <540FE9F2.2040501@marino.st>
References:  <201409092248.s89MmeZq039294@svn.freebsd.org> <34104EFD-4F9E-4383-9D3B-6150EE77DE65@adamw.org> <540FE91A.2070905@marino.st> <540FE9F2.2040501@marino.st>

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On 10 Sep, 2014, at 2:04, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote:

> On 9/10/2014 08:00, John Marino wrote:
>> On 9/10/2014 06:14, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> If those problems haven=92t been fixed, is it worth deprecating =
poslib too?
>>>=20
>>=20
>> posadis has essentially been abandoned for 10 years.  The last =
activity
>> on the SF source was about 6 weeks after the last release.  There are
>> other dns implementations that are still maintained, so yes, I think
>> poslib should be deprecated.  I didn't know it existed.
>>=20
>=20
> On the other hand, it builds and it's not hurting anything and it =
looks
> like it can be used in external standalone applications, so I wouldn't
> object to just leaving it either.

You=92re right about everything you said there. I was just concerned =
that the posadis failures may have been indicators that there were =
fundamental problems with *using* the poslib library on modern =
compilers.

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
http://www.adamw.org




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