Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon.

El sáb, 13-06-2009 a las 14:40 +0200, army.of.root escribió:
> Antxon wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it seems consistent to use C, especially when theres only one program left
> thats C++ (after groff is replaced with mdoc). And since devd is only a few loc
> it does not seem reasonable to argue with complexity.
> 
> It does not cost anything (its already done), so why not just seriously
> consider using the C implemetation, when its code quality is as good.
> 
> _at_Anxton: Could you post it somewhere? - It would really help this conversation
> if people could look at the actual code.
> 
> best regards and many thanks for supporting *BSD you all!

I have already sent the files to Edward Tomasz, as he offered himself as
a helping hand. Thanks to everybody that offered help or advice.

Antxon.