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> References: <201805190631.w4J6VHhr094225@repo.freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2CAGvdOKidTha17YzyVUn5ep0bt8fO6Umhsk4zYnwFRZA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPrugNoGudT2djU2F2M%2BjzpBiqHhRzE7fgcga-W6Soz_XBKdVA@mail.gmail.com> <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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