From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 02:09:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBF316A4CE; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D717A43FBD; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8EBBD66B4C; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Hartmut Brandt Message-ID: <20031110100936.GA8977@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200311100853.hAA8rchS095414@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031110092945.GA8246@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031110103409.R29745@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20031110094330.GA8458@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031110104611.U29745@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031110104611.U29745@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bsnmp - Imported sources X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:09:40 -0000 --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:51:34AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > KK>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:37:54AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > KK> > KK>> KK>What is this? I don't remember it being discussed on the mailing > KK>> KK>lists, which is usual before importing new software into FreeBSD. > KK>> > KK>> That is the base for the NgATM ILMI daemon. While writing the commit > KK>> message I was thinking about whether or not to include an explanatio= n into > KK>> the commit message. We talked about this on the atm mailing list app= rox. a > KK>> year ago. > KK> > KK>That's pretty narrow distribution, and self-selected for people who > KK>think it's a good idea. >=20 > Well, discussing ATM issues with folks who don't care about ATM doesn't > make much sense though. The best you get is no response at all. If the > problem is that it is in contrib - the reason is that although the > development platform is FreeBSD this is actually portable code that runs > also on Solaris and Linux and has a different build environment for this > (gmake and autoconfig). The problem is that it's code that is useless to 99% of the FreeBSD userbase, so it's unclear whether it belongs in the base system instead of ports. Kris --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/r2PgWry0BWjoQKURAmu1AKC0O+hMMYIavIB3gsQnvuD+ZJSv2QCdFkU8 nFPA+XzgbAWoTllRPDoiAr4= =TLe8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--