Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:03:04 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring WITHOUT_CXX Message-ID: <CAPyFy2Bs76J=UVotL6McqdHVNwhtYmfQq7U2xpXVKiQTpa78Lw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202111260909.1AQ99LY2023877@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <CAPyFy2DJcDFbSoD8awU03jPBY1YVytf%2Bxk4qpv3pW_GLkOsfWA@mail.gmail.com> <202111260909.1AQ99LY2023877@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 04:09, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > So is the feature model of FreeBSD becoming, oh it gets broken > cause it is not regularly tested, so lets remove that feature. I don't agree with that. We have a large and growing CI infrastructure to regularly test functionality and are continually adding to it over time. But it's important to test and maintain what is actually used and is useful. Disabling C++ support made sense when obrien@ added the original knob in 2000, but it makes less sense today when parts of FreeBSD are written in C++.
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