Re: SQLite3 and JSON1

[Jonathan Schleifer <js%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Am 20.10.2020 um 20:10 schrieb Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>:

> So would you take the position:
> 
>  sqlite3 without JSON1 is broken, period

I would not go so far and say it's broken, but unexpected and uncommon? Yeah.

>  anything in pkgsrc that wants sqlite3 should get a version with JSON1

That sounds like a reasonable approach. Debugging something that only fails at runtime has the potential for a lot of brokenness that we don't notice. SQLite3 is small, so always using pkgsrc SQLite3 on NetBSD < 10 seems reasonable to me.

>  therefore builtin.mk should reject NetBSD bas sqlite3, at least until
>  some future time when base has it?
> 
>  and we can skip declaring that JSON1 is needed?
> 
> I think that's a perfectly reasonable approach.

Sounds good to me. And while at it, we should look what other features we're missing.

-- 
Jonathan