Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:38:42 +0200 From: Florian Ermisch <florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de> To: dtrace@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replacement of cddl/contrib/opendtrace with the OpenDTrace version Message-ID: <EADDD89F-AF9F-4EF2-8CDD-606FA8B60A01@alumni.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <345E2021-EC9B-4040-AA5C-7879371F13F8@freebsd.org> References: <59138256-95CC-4E43-9672-8F3486D37B6C@freebsd.org> <20160414032829.GT31516@strugglingcoder.info> <345E2021-EC9B-4040-AA5C-7879371F13F8@freebsd.org>
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Am 14. April 2016 05:49:03 MESZ, schrieb George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>: > > > On 13 Apr 2016, at 20:28, hiren panchasara wrote: > > > On 04/13/16 at 07:38P, George Neville-Neil wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I've created a new project and organization on githhub for > maintaining > >> bits of DTrace, including the DTrace Toolkit. I have imported the > last > >> known version of the toolkit into this repo: > >> > >> https://github.com/opendtrace/toolkit > >> > >> I have then applied all the changes made by Rui Paolo, Ed Maste and > >> myself within a "freebsd" branch in that repo. > >> > >> Before 11.0 I intend to remove the toolkit from the FreeBSD repo > and > >> maintain it separately, along with scripts and versions for the > other > >> operating systems that support DTrace. I'd like folks to test this > >> replacement on FreeBSD. It should be as simple as: > >> > >> ?> rm /usr/src/cddl/contrib/dtracetoolkit > >> ?> git clone https://github.com/opendtrace/toolkit.git > >> ?> git checkout -b freebsd > >> > >> I've tested this locally on my systems but I'd like to hear > feedback > >> from others before I pull the scripts from our tree. > > > > Hi George, > > > > What is the rationale of treating this specially and not like any > other > > contrib software? IIRC, a few things from toolkit gets installed in > > /usr/share/dtrace/toolkit currently which is pretty handy at times. > I > > was hoping we install more things but it looks like now we'd have to > go > > get it from a git repo. > > > > It's getting very little (to no) attention in our tree, and I'm now > working on a combined set of scripts that are cross platform. > > Best, > George Hi George, so there will be a port/pkg "dtrace-toolkit" later? Or will an updated version pulled back into head? Generally I think it's a good idea to have an upstream outside FreeBSD's tree. Hopefully it will encourage contributions from other platforms as well. Regards, Florian
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