Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-21 Thread GH
*snip* > No. We are talking about removing a GPL infected library from the base > tree that is used by a couple of utterly performance irrelevant utilities > and making these couple of utilities (secure-rpc key generation tools) > use the OpenSSL bignum API - where OpenSSL has a BSD-style license

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-21 Thread Peter Wemm
GH wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:15:12PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:51:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > > > libbn is alread

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-21 Thread GH
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:15:12PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:51:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > libbn is already part of OpenSSH; it's

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:51:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > libbn is already part of OpenSSH; it's a trivial matter to make it ^^^ I meant to say Open

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-18 Thread Mark Murray
> No, I'm saying that the author of the SRA patches did the right thing > and used the traditional BSD math library when extending the > traditional BSD telnet utility. I am furthermore making the point > that FreeBSD should continue to ship with a library that provides > the `libmp' interface, r

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-18 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > But telnet in historic BSD didn't have sra or any other authentication > mechanism that uses libmp. Or are you saying that we cannot change > `historical BSD software'? No, I'm saying that the author of the SRA patches did the right thing and used the traditional BSD math library when

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Assar Westerlund
Garrett Wollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > < said: > > > telnet* should never have used libmp in the first place, > > Yes, it should have, since telnet is historic BSD software and libmp > is the historic BSD arbitrary-precision-math library. But telnet in historic BSD didn't have sra or any

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > telnet* should never have used libmp in the first place, Yes, it should have, since telnet is historic BSD software and libmp is the historic BSD arbitrary-precision-math library. That is also (one reason) why we should continue to supply a libmp, regardless of what code it is actuall

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:51:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > libbn is already part of OpenSSH; it's a trivial matter to make it > into a standalone library. In other words, we already include two > functionally equivalent bignum libraries in FreeBSD, so one of them > should go. I couldn't a

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:22:56PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:38:45PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > It should not be too hard to have build a lightweight 'libbignum' that > > is extracted from the openssl sources and make that available in the base > > system.

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Mixtim
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:48:41AM -0400, Joseph A. Mallett wrote: > > If we do need some of the functionality of libgmp in the base-system, > > then we really should import some newer version of libgmp, instead of > > trying to make our own new library. I dont really like reinventing > > wheels

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Joseph A. Mallett
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > If we do need some of the functionality of libgmp in the base-system, > then we really should import some newer version of libgmp, instead of > trying to make our own new library. I dont really like reinventing > wheels :) > Unless you are the on

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:38:45PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > It should not be too hard to have build a lightweight 'libbignum' that > is extracted from the openssl sources and make that available in the base > system. It would not be hard to convert the lib*mp consumers to use the > libbignum (

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:48:48AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > I dont seem to be able to find some part of the base system that > > actually *does* use libgmp. Being out of date as it is, do you think > > it's proper to remove it from the base system and make it

Re: convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-16 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:48:48AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > I dont seem to be able to find some part of the base system that > actually *does* use libgmp. Being out of date as it is, do you think > it's proper to remove it from the base system and make it a port? > It is a port. Se

convert libgmp to a port?

2001-06-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
I was looking at PR/9233 from Dec 1998 the other day, and I saw that the version of libgmp thats included in the base-system seems to be very outdated (version 2.x in our tree, while version 3.x is available at the homepage of libgmp). After discussing this with [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it through