Re: Planning to remove pkgtools/pkglint4

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Hello Roland,
>
> Roland Illig writes:
>> In 2015 I completely rewrote pkglint and left the old implementation for
>> those whose preferred platform is not supported by the Go programming
>> language.
>>
>> This old pkglint has not been kept up-to-date, it issues many wrong
>> warnings and doesn't have several new useful warnings. Therefore I'd
>> like to remove it, in order to avoid confusion.
>>
>> Who is still using pkglint4, and on which platforms? Please speak up.
>>
>
> Please do not remove it.  Despite the quality of the warnings/errors
> isn't as good as pkgtools/pkglint I still find it helpful and daily
> use it on NetBSD/evbarm aarch64.

I am not using it myself, but I think it's really unfortunate that a
core pkgsrc tool is written in a non-portable language.  I think it's
perfectly fair to add to the DESCR a caution about it being old, but I
don't see that it is a net positive to remove it.

It would be nice to fix go's portability problems, but obviously that's
difficult.