svn commit: r367789 - in head: . dns dns/posadis games games/linux-savage net net/etherboot

[Adam Weinberger]

On 10 Sep, 2014, at 2:04, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:

> On 9/10/2014 08:00, John Marino wrote:
>> On 9/10/2014 06:14, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> If those problems haven’t been fixed, is it worth deprecating poslib too?
>>> 
>> 
>> posadis has essentially been abandoned for 10 years.  The last activity
>> on the SF source was about 6 weeks after the last release.  There are
>> other dns implementations that are still maintained, so yes, I think
>> poslib should be deprecated.  I didn't know it existed.
>> 
> 
> On the other hand, it builds and it's not hurting anything and it looks
> like it can be used in external standalone applications, so I wouldn't
> object to just leaving it either.

You’re right about everything you said there. I was just concerned that the posadis failures may have been indicators that there were fundamental problems with *using* the poslib library on modern compilers.

# Adam


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