From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 18:32:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B781065675 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73888FC1B for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9591C19067; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:32:06 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from tau (unknown [66.45.161.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:32:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:31:56 -0800 From: Bruce Cran To: Eitan Adler Message-ID: <20081130103156.6e4da70c@tau> In-Reply-To: <49329F4A.3070004@gmail.com> References: <49320FF7.4040901@gmail.com> <4932122A.8070209@delphij.net> <493214DC.2080904@gmail.com> <20081130004331.086941f3@tau> <49329F4A.3070004@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: change to ee.c X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:32:08 -0000 On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:12:26 -0500 Eitan Adler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bruce Cran wrote: > > > The version of ee in FreeBSD is fairly old: the latest from > > http://mahon.cwx.net/ is 1.4.6. > How difficult would it be to bring it up to date? How come it has not > been updated so far? I'd guess it hasn't been updated because it works as it is and nobody has taken an interest in bringing it up to date. I don't know how many patches have been applied locally to it but that would be the main challenge in importing a newer version: you'd have to go through the FreeBSD CVS history and check that any changes/fixes that were made to FreeBSD's version are either already included in the new release or ensure that those changes get re-applied to the new version. -- Bruce Cran