I'm a software developer at Novell. I have been tasked with porting OpenSSH to the NetWare 6.0 OS. I would like to include my NetWare specific changes,#ifdef'd of course, in the portable releases at some point. Whom should I contact with regard to this? And are there any guidlines I can look at online to minimize any disturbance this may cause to other platforms? Any assistance that can be provided would be appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vince Brimhall Senior Software Engineer Server Communications 801.861.1724 vbrimhall at novell.com Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software. www.novell.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20011022/3dd125a6/attachment.html
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:29:33PM -0600, Vince Brimhall wrote:> I'm a software developer at Novell. I have been tasked with porting > OpenSSH to the NetWare 6.0 OS. I would like to include my NetWare > specific changes,#ifdef'd of course, in the portable releases at > some point. Whom should I contact with regard to this? And are > there any guidlines I can look at online to minimize any disturbance > this may cause to other platforms?Are your changes #ifdef NOVELL or, hopefully, #ifdef FEATURE in the autoconf way of doing things, where FEATURE is determined by configure.in? -- albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)
The normal procedure is to post the changes to the list. Now, as for the rules of the game. They are easy. If you have Netware only routines put them in openbsd-compat/bsd-netware.c. Keep the #ifdef mess down as low as possible. And expect us to deny the patch if any major changes occur to the OpenSSH tree. The portable group attempts to keep the differences as low as possible between it and the upstream (in some cases we fail, but we are starting to be a bit stricker). Lastly. diff -u format please. It is easier to read. I have no clue if configure has been ported to Netware. So you will need to document the build process so we understand why you are doing things. - Ben On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Vince Brimhall wrote:> I'm a software developer at Novell. I have been tasked with porting OpenSSH to the NetWare 6.0 OS. I would like to include my NetWare specific changes,#ifdef'd of course, in the portable releases at some point. Whom should I contact with regard to this? And are there any guidlines I can look at online to minimize any disturbance this may cause to other platforms? > > Any assistance that can be provided would be appreciated. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Vince Brimhall > Senior Software Engineer > Server Communications > 801.861.1724 > vbrimhall at novell.com > > Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software. > www.novell.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >