RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:08 AM -0700 2003/06/27, Terry Lambert wrote:

>>  bzip2 - could be reimplemented
>
>  Or ignored.  The Unisys patent which caused it to be written has
>  expired (Welcome home, compress, we missed you!).

	Compress is okay, but people have come to rely on gzip and bzip2. 
IMO, perhaps the best thing is to move them to ports.  Unless, that 
is, they're used anywhere in the build process.

>>  cc - find an alternative compiler? From where?
>
>  TenDRA.  Watcom.  Intel.  Lots of choices here.

	How many of these work on non-Intel hardware, such as Alpha or SPARC?

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
!w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)