Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:41:58 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>, Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components) Message-ID: <79530.1546641718@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <201901042217.x04MHWaE046238@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <201901042217.x04MHWaE046238@slippy.cwsent.com>
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-------- In message <201901042217.x04MHWaE046238@slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert wr= ites: >In message <79361.1546639367@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" = >writes: >That's exactly my point. What subset of things can and should we focus on= ? Whatever you as a contributor needs and enjoys. >Adding or replacing a language or languages in base should be = >consistent with the long-term direction of The Project. Forget adding new botique languages to base: That's not happening any time soon, if ever, for all the reasons already enumerated. Until somebody comes up with an AbsolutelyMustHaveBeforePackagesCanBeInstalled program written in $Language, $LanguageCompiler stays in ports where it belongs. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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