Re: mktool support for fetch

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Den 2024-08-24 18:33, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost> skrev:

>  * On 2024-08-24 at 15:16 CEST, Greg Troxel wrote:
>  
>  >I know this is said to be optional.  But I don't have confidence that it
>  >will stay that way, and suspect we'll sooner or later get to "you just
>  >need to use the rust version; your platform is deficient".  Avoiding
>  >that will mean that we'll have to prohibit mktool from having features
>  >not in the base pkgsrc/mk, being limited to faster implementations, with
>  >the other ones still being usable.  That's how it has been framed, but I
>  >am very skeptical that this will last.
>  
>  I'm absolutely fine with not adding it, FWIW.  As the prominent advocate
>  for pkgsrc portability, I would be the first to hand in my commit bit if
>  we started mandating Rust support, and that certainly would never ever
>  come from me.
>  
>  I'll keep it in TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc.  There is no shortage of
>  patches there that folks aren't keen on ;-)


This is a huge disappointement.
Guess, I need to add the hooks locally.

:(