Re: ITP: atm

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:17, Marc Haber wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:45:45PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> >> I say that I am reluctant to package this because it's something that
> >> really doesn't interest me, I just need it to get my ADSL connection
> >> working.  If someone wants to take over the package now (or at any
> >> future time) then I will be very glad.
>
> There is an open RFP #109612 for that package, but I won't get around
> packaging the atm-tools before the freeze.

Do you think I should call the main package atm-tools instead of atm which is 
the name I currently use?

> >> My current work is on http://www.coker.com.au/atm/ .
> >
> >Can I suggest libatm and libatm-dev instead, since they are libraries
> >and not utilities?
>
> There might be a lib included, but there is also a daemon (atmarpd)
> and a command line utility (atmarp) to interface with the atmarpd.

Actually there is no lib.  That's one thing I think needs to be done, the 
code should be split out into a shared object and save a few hundred K of 
disk space.

> BTW, the current version of the atm utilities suffers from very bad
> code quality. There are utilities that write their output to stdin
> (sic!), and the error messages are horribly broken.

:(

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