RFC: C version of devd daemon.

[Antxon]

El sáb, 13-06-2009 a las 11:57 +0200, Ed Schouten escribió:
> * Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's a different story. Reading man pages is not a functional
> > requirement, depending on the point of view. A system *can* run fine
> > even without manual pages (and the corresponding reader/formatter)
> > installed.
> 
> And a typical FreeBSD webserver won't be affected by devd not being
> installed. I read a lot of manpages, but I think I've only changed devd
> related config files once or twice in my entire life. But we're drifting
> off.
> 
> Rewriting devd in C, just because Clang doesn't support C++, is not a
> good argument. Clang itself is also written in C++. Even I (the
> maintainer of the clangbsd branch in SVN) think that a compiler that is
> not able to bootstrap itself cannot be considered a serious replacement
> for GCC at this time.
> 

Those are really good reasons. C++ is still needed to compile Clang, but
clang it's not the only compiler available at the moment. It's just
about choices. Is it worth to rewrite devd it in C? As I already did
that, it is not up to my to answer the question.

Antxon.