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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2018 10:59:20 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333872 - head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/tools/ctf/cvt
Message-ID:  <20180520105920.GA30998@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180519194437.GA21485@raichu>
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On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 03:44:37PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
> ...
> I don't really think it's important. The main consideration is the
> toolchain. We use illumos as an upstream, which is pretty inactive at
> this point. Joyent's illumos fork has put a lot of work into the CTF
> toolchain, and OpenBSD has made some progress towards an ISC-licensed
> ctfconvert utility. I'd like to import the latter, since the permissive
> license means that we can use it in DDB. It requires more work because
> of some missing functionality, though.
> 
> At some point I think we'd like to pursue one of these two upstreams,

Quick reality check question: why aren't *we* (FreeBSD) upstream, since
Sun was killed by Oracle and we're more alive than illumos and OpenBSD?

./danfe



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