From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 14 08:55:58 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA14247 for current-outgoing; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 08:55:58 -0700 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com (root@dial4.iw.net [204.157.148.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA14144 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 08:53:12 -0700 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA17216; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:54:14 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA26568; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:58:07 -0500 Message-Id: <199509141558.KAA26568@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 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? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:43:54 CDT." <9509141543.AA10094@olympus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:58:06 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > * 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