A proposed drastic cleanup of the telnet build.

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Wed Jun 4 14:38:29 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:26:59PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:42:50PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > > 
> > > I propose to 'cvs rm' the 'base' telnet, and build base telnet by
> > > not defining the appropriate macros.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > The downside is that base telnet will depend on src/crypto/telnet,
> > > so folks in dodgy countries which don't allow them to have crypto
> > > source will not be able to do telnet development, and they will
> > > not get a "fresh" telnet[d] after a make world.
> > 
> > I think it's a good idea. Do you know how many (which?) dodgy countries
> > there are on this particular rock we call the earth? I mean, WRT to this
> > particular issue of course :-)
> 
> The only one that I can think of that makes public domain crypto
> illegal is Myanmar/Burma, and this is because owning a computer
> is illegal.

:-)

It looks to me that we can remove the base telnet. I'm game.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net


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