[REVIEW] Re: Modernizing calendar(1) (was: svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars)

[Warner Losh]

Modulo the stuff I left on the reviews....  I love it. I can also extract
history from FreeBSDs repo.

Warner

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 4:03 AM Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Am 21.10.20 um 09:15 schrieb Stefan Esser:
> > Am 21.10.20 um 03:23 schrieb Greg 'groggy' Lehey:
> > [...]
> >> That's the whole point.  Where do we draw the line?  Given that these
> >> holidays interest more people outside the project than in, I'd think
> >> that they should all go into the port.  And the whole idea of
> >> alternative 3 is that the maintenance should be automatic and
> >> external, so updating holidays should no longer be our concern.
> >
> > Are we taling about the calendar binary or the calendar files?
> >
> > IMHO, the calendar binary could stay in base but be modified to
> > scan directories in e.g. /usr/local/share/calendar/ and ports
> > could provide these calendar files.
>
> I have created a Phabricator review for the proposed change:
>
>         https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26882
>
> This is just an enabler for calendar files in a directory that
> can be maintained by means of a port.
>
> A suggested port has been made available for review, too:
>
>         https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26883
>