On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:26:50 +0000 (GMT)
Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net> wrote:

> There are other incompatibilites in any case, though porting programs is
> usually a bit of cut and paste and a lot of it could be handled with
> #define. I'm not sure what application level software is available but
> that would not usually need to access HCI devices directly, though there
> was some chat on the FreeBSD list a while ago about creating a library API
> to abstract some of that which could make sense.
> 
This is the real question.  What could -- or should -- show up in
pkgsrc in two years?  How much harder will this difference make it to
port such programs?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb