Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:21:50 +0000 From: Antxon <agoca80@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon. Message-ID: <1244892110.1104.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20090613095738.GH48776@hoeg.nl> References: <538f43900906120823w388f1c63ic8d0194017faca6d@mail.gmail.com> <20090612165518.GA15530@phenom.cordula.ws> <20090612172740.GA1952@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090612175206.GA77895@freebsd.org> <20090612180906.GA12679@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090612193614.GF48776@hoeg.nl> <20090612202839.GA93343@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090612203032.GG48776@hoeg.nl> <e71790db0906121823o54e8e5c2m82c91b0a1ba6dbe4@mail.gmail.com> <20090613095738.GH48776@hoeg.nl>
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El sáb, 13-06-2009 a las 11:57 +0200, Ed Schouten escribió: > * Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@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.
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