functions from add-on packages, was: Newbie question: testing for lvalue

On 2/8/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The quality of share/contrib, like the rest of share, varies widely.
> share/contrib/numericalio and share/contrib/stringproc have active
> maintainers and their quality isn't any worse than stuff outside of
> share/contrib. They haven't been moved out of share/contrib
> only because it's a bother to fix up cvs, Makefiles, etc.
>

I understand about the bother, but isn't it worth distinguishing clearly
between packages we support and recommend to users and packages we don't
support (in contrib)?

               -s