Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 01:45:04PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:28:34 -0800
>     From:        John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <201812150528.wBF5SYhr025993%server.cornerstoneservice.ca@localhost>
> 
>   | As kre noted, it is probably the oldest network application
>   | around.  According to Wikipedia, the protocol was developed in
>   | 1969, predating TCP/IP, which means that it is probably the oldest
>   | TCP/IP application there is.
> 
> That's actually what I meant.   I have no idea in which order the BSD
> applications were written (nor, for that matter, their original origins.)
> 
> But if there are bugs in any of them (and that is not impossible, just as
> with any other software) then we should simply fix them, not just declare
> some apps as "too old, abandon it".
> 
> I also simply cannot believe that any issue that might exist in telnet is
> going to be any worse than firefox with a http:// URL ... and I do not see
> anyone suggesting that firefox (and every other browser) should be
> abandoned.
> 
> kre
> 

A basic telnet client in python (taking into account the library it uses
as well) is 800 lines.
the netbsd telnet client is 16000 lines, taking into account libtelnet.

I literally deleted more lines of telnet than it takes to implement a
new line by unifdef'ing dead code.

Hope that gives you an indication for how great our code is.