Re: next steps for inetutils?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I  pushed out  a stable  release  now.  Let's  see if  we get  more
   testing than for the pre-releases;  we can always release something
   in the  coming weeks/month  to fix build/portability  stuff.  There
   isn't  a lot  of testing  on BSD,  Solaris, AIX  and other  non-GNU
   systems as far as I know.

I think Mats-Erik is a heavy BSD and Solaris user, but I don't know
anyone else that might be using it.

Thank you for the roll-out, Simon!

   * arp tool

   * nc (netcat) tool

I like these additions, but I am worried about compatibility against
the more prolific versions of those tools.

   * fix all warnings with autoconf 2.71 - I didn't want to touch this
     before 2.0 since we had succesful build reports, but there are plenty
     of old m4 constructs that we should use gnulib tools for instead.

   * use gitlog-to-changelog instead of manual ChangeLog entries

I'm sorta still against it -- since it would ruin my work flow of
being able to edit the ChangeLog file post-factum.  But I am sure I
can be convinced without much work ... if someone else does the
work. :-)

   * Enhance Man pages so they fully supersede NetKit and BSD man pages

Can you elaboraet a bit?

   * generally use gnulib for portability more than we use today.

Yes, yes, yes, pelase.

   * Mingw/cygwin support?

If it is not much work, why not ...

   * Remove Kerberos V4 support?  I'm not sure there are any usable
     Kerberos V4 implementations around anymore, and it is is
     single-DES-only so they are completely insecure anyway.

Sounds like a good idea.