From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 24 21:22:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA29038 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29033 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA28518; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:51:57 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706250421.NAA28518@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: libedit, etc. (CVS issues) In-Reply-To: <19130.867212264@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 24, 97 09:17:44 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:51:56 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > A second case is ftp. In this one, there have been no significant > > changes for quite some time, but the NetBSD changes are quite > > substantial. > > - Would it be best to drop the NetBSD code in wholesale on top, replacing > > what is there outright? > > Well, just so long as theirs works, I don't see a problem with that. :-) The only problem that I recall from when the code was added to NetBSD was with ange-ftp, which suffered from the new output format. As a non-ange user, I didn't follow the thread too closely. Does anyone use ange-ftp regularly? Can anyone with real NetBSD connections recall the outcome of this issue? (Jason? Earth to Jason Thorpe!) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[