Re: pkgsrc mktool utility

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Den 2024-08-05 17:48, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost> skrev:

>  * On 2024-08-05 at 16:17 BST, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>  
>  >I could update the distinfo file for wip/grafana with it (not that I
>  >can build it, because extraction fails due to the shell argument
>  >limit).
>  
>  Now that I've imported a newer devel/bmake that fixes this we should
>  perhaps enforce that it be built if the native version is too old.
>  
>  >(I have no idea how we could add it as a base package though if it's
>  >in rust. If we want to replace the shell/awk/make/... infrastructure
>  >it needs to be in something that we can bootstrap everywhere, and I
>  >fear rust's not it, currently. So we'd need a compatible C version, or
>  >something.)
>  
>  Yeh, that's why it will always be an optional replacement.  At this
>  point I have zero energy for writing stuff from scratch in C, especially
>  C that needs to be portable across all pkgsrc platforms, and I actually
>  really like the model where it's an optional external component, as it
>  removes all of the bootstrap and upgrade headaches.
>  
>  I have a bunch of other pkgsrc things lined up in Rust, making use of
>  the pkgsrc-rs library that I've been developing over time.  None of them
>  will ever be mandatory.  However, I would like to make it easy to opt-in
>  to them, if that's ok.

Yes, count me in. I'll opt-in directly.
/Pedro


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