Re: Rewriting pkglint in a portable language

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

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On 25.03.2016 08:37, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:35:29PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
>> But since Go is currently not portable to as many platforms as
>> necessary for pkgsrc, it is not the optimal choice, and I looked
>> for alternatives.
> 
> That is what I was thinking too initially, but after thinking about
> it more there is an alternative: instead of you wasting time on
> rewriting it one more time, let's try to push portability of Go
> (just like we should for Rust, see my mail from yesterday).
> 
> The question is what targets do we consider necessary - I wouldn't
> think ancient NetBSD versions should be included (even if still
> creating binary pkgs for them). Improving the make conditions that
> swich over to the perl version should do.
> 
> Martin
> 

I concur it. pkglint in Go enforces many pkgsrc users to install Go on
their systems and validate that it's still functional. Functional Go
verifies correctness of NetBSD and other systems.

For unsupported systems there is pkglint4. I used it also on slower
ones, not using CPU cycles to boostrap Go.

Instead of rewriting please keep your good work on.
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