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Re: Cross-rpcgen patch, version 6
> AFAIK the two large rpc users are NFS and NIS. TI-RPC is used today by
> the NFSv4 code but not usable for NIS at all. And NIS is IMO fading out
> as well but still in use... I even suggested dropping NIS but didn't
> succeed ;-(
I use YP myself at home (and resist calling it NIS, that's how
old-fashioned I am). But not because it's good at anything, only
because it's so much easier to set up and maintain than any of the
more modern solutions.
> The problem is that everybody is patching it in. We could add a
> configure option to enable building against it - that would send the
> message out as well that its obsolete.
That notion just occurred to me as well. I would very much prefer that
it be a configure option rather than a plain reversal. In fact, I think
we should make the default to leave it out of the API. It's trivial for
packagers to pass another configure option.
Thanks,
Roland