Re: libXO-ification - Why - and is it a symptom of deeper issues?

From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:24:18 -0800
On 11/16/15 9:39 AM, Dan Partelly wrote:
>> How big of a donor you are to the FreeBSD Foundation does not affect the
>> committable of your code. Having code ready to commit, vs just a vague
>> plan, does help your solution win out over another proposed solution though
>
> Then surely you will salvage something from a lot of GsoCs where people wrote code with various degrees of success, only
> to never hear again of anintegration, or an  evaluation of that code, and possible integration.
>
> One which directly interests me: what happened to the BSD libctf  code from GSoc ? Was the resulted code evaluated ? If
> it falls short, where it does ? Can it be salvaged ?
>
> Libxo might be a fine facility to have for some corner cases, but it doesnt solve the problem of binary code reuse in general. Might have solved it fast for Juniper.  It is yet another stick into a scaffolding of shell scripts which should have been replaced years ago with proper libraries, services and IPC, opening the road towards modern service management, service frameworks , fault management , fault response and transactional OS databases
>    
> I continue to believe this is or will become shortly an issue of utmost importance , one which is worthy of the status of a FreeBSD
> initiated and sponsored object.
>
Yes.  We will get there.

-Alfred (who pushed for libxo as well)
Received on Tue Nov 17 2015 - 01:24:19 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:01 UTC