Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 21:38:02 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Retiring WITHOUT_CXX Message-ID: <fa49b5b6-31ff-a9b0-256e-531d3bb65421@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2Bs76J=UVotL6McqdHVNwhtYmfQq7U2xpXVKiQTpa78Lw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2DJcDFbSoD8awU03jPBY1YVytf%2Bxk4qpv3pW_GLkOsfWA@mail.gmail.com> <202111260909.1AQ99LY2023877@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <CAPyFy2Bs76J=UVotL6McqdHVNwhtYmfQq7U2xpXVKiQTpa78Lw@mail.gmail.com>
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26.11.2021 21:03, Ed Maste wrote: > 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++. It depends on what are those parts exactly. For example, I exclude devd (written in C++) from my FreeBSD images because it does only harm for a router with fixed hardware but ever-changing set of ngXXX interfaces being created/removed (PPPoE server with high load). So I also build the image WITHOUT_CXX.
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