El sáb, 13-06-2009 a las 11:57 +0200, Ed Schouten escribió: > * Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > That's a different story. Reading man pages is not a functional > > requirement, depending on the point of view. A system *can* run fine > > even without manual pages (and the corresponding reader/formatter) > > installed. > > And a typical FreeBSD webserver won't be affected by devd not being > installed. I read a lot of manpages, but I think I've only changed devd > related config files once or twice in my entire life. But we're drifting > off. > > Rewriting devd in C, just because Clang doesn't support C++, is not a > good argument. Clang itself is also written in C++. Even I (the > maintainer of the clangbsd branch in SVN) think that a compiler that is > not able to bootstrap itself cannot be considered a serious replacement > for GCC at this time. > Those are really good reasons. C++ is still needed to compile Clang, but clang it's not the only compiler available at the moment. It's just about choices. Is it worth to rewrite devd it in C? As I already did that, it is not up to my to answer the question. Antxon.Received on Sat Jun 13 2009 - 09:21:27 UTC
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