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From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
To: "'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: whois package
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:33:22 -0500 
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ok.  Next question.  Can we shamelessly steal code from bind for inclusion
in cygwin?  I'm not familiar with its licensing, but the copyright notice
looks like it gives full permission to use their code as we see fit.  Can I
get an amen from someone who knows what they're talking about here?

And the next question, would we want to go that route?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:14 PM
> To: Mark Bradshaw
> Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: whois package
> 
> 
> Hallo Mark,
> 
> 2001-12-07 18:05:12, du schriebst:
> 
> > Going back to dig and host, I'm guessing that the 
> maintainer would need to
> > actually be a maintainer for the whole bind package?  Am I 
> right in assuming
> > that having bind as a cygwin package would provide 
> libresolv functionality,
> > or would more be required.
> 
> No just the resolver is needed to build the tools, I can 
> query every NS so the
> named isn't required and I think my 'native' Windows DNS 
> Server is much faster.
> 
> > BTW, I can get bind 9.2 to compile with some modification....
> 
> Great.  But there are some problems here.
> If bind installs in /usr there are some files which collide, 
> netdb.h, sys/cdefs.h,
> arpa/inet.h.
> A possibility to resolve this would be a split into runtime 
> and devel version,
> or the headers needs to be merged which is the better choice IMO.
> 
> On the other hand, the best would be to have a libresolv 
> included with the C lib
> or resolver functions in cygwin itself so bind isn't needed.
> 
> Gerrit
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