Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 09:30:44 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Subject: Re: xstr, mkstr Message-ID: <1530718244.24573.153.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201807041449.w64EnMiI043329@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201807041449.w64EnMiI043329@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 07:49 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Rodney W. Grimes < > > freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > But, as I said early, lets just shelf all this "lets remove this or > > > that cause of foo" until package base is done, and then a group of > > > people should create a documented critiria list of what should or > > > should not be in the base system, and do a tree wide sweep rather > > > than have 100+ threads over the next 5 years about this or that. > > > > > It does tie into the deprecation stuff too. > Then shall this be tabled until that is finished please? > > > > > xstr, at least, needs major work to support modern C dialects. It's not > > just old, it's also broken. A quick stroll through the code shows this. It > > should go because it's not worth taking with us to pkg base. > So add "Old", "Broken" to the list of critera and lets move on? > Cost of taking this to pkg base should be 0, cost of this > conversation is already >>> 0. Packaged base has nothing to do with this. The cost of keeping this code isn't a few bytes of disk space for the binary, it's the burden of having unused code that doesn't even work in the source tree. If you don't see that as a burden, then this conversation is going to keep going nowhere useful, as it has been doing for a couple days now. -- Ian
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