Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:08:18 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small, useful tools (Was: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question) Message-ID: <26964.917370498@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:57:34 %2B0200." <199901261657.SAA44931@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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>Examples: more is a subset of less Isn't our current "more" actually and older version of "less" ? > fmt " " " " par >...and I am sure there are more similar examples. > >Rather than writing new code, it may be useful for authors to consider >extending old; As long as the "new" are true supersets of the "old" it makes sense, as in your two examples. ><asbestos> >For other small bits-of-code, there is my old favourite, tcp_wrappers ></asbestos> I think I would support tcp_wrappers in FreeBSD, if it wasn't because our current modus operandi for src/contrib suffers in so many ways. <Trigger Who="Jordan" Keyword="New package system"> As things stand I think it is better left as a port. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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