cvs commit: src/contrib/bsnmp - Imported sources

[Harti Brandt]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David O'Brien wrote:

DO>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:24:50AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
DO>> KK>The problem is that it's code that is useless to 99% of the FreeBSD
DO>> KK>userbase, so it's unclear whether it belongs in the base system
DO>> KK>instead of ports.
DO>...
DO>> Most of the code is under NOATM so it shouldn't pose a problem for
DO>> people who don't need it.
DO>
DO>Committers can't run with NOATM as they could too-easily break the build
DO>by not testing a full 'make world'.

Sure. But committers are a sub-set of current users.

DO>
DO>> Also this is is a mid-term replacement for the otherwise un-maintained
DO>> HARP code.
DO>
DO>Are there plans to HARP 'cvs rm'ed?

The official HARP isn't maintained anymore. Our HARP is maintained very
weakly. It was broken for longer amounts of time because no committer had
the interest/equipment/knowledge to work on it. People were forced to
stick with -stable or got Linux. I'm also not sure HARP will be 64-bit
ready beyound just beeing compilable. There are a lot of fragile places in
HARP with regard to mbuf handling, and so on... I think we can remove HARP
mid-term (for 6.0) given this state. NgATM will soon support everything
what HARP does plus ABR, plus LAN emulation support, remove configuration
and a large testsuite for the protocols. It is actively maintained.

harti
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