HEADS UP: importing kyua into the base system

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:56:29AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:14:02AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > I'll be importing kyua and it's dependency lutok into the base system
> > > > this week.  Integrating it into the FreeBSD build system will make it
> > > > available by default which is especially valuable on emerging
> > > > architectures were we aren't building packages yet (e.g. riscv).
> > >
> > > Why isnt there a preceding discussion of this on -arch?
> > 
> > The lack of kyua in base (meaning the inability to run the test suite
> > without package infrastructure) has been discussed as a pain point for
> > ages.
> 
> I recall no such discsussion in the past 3 years, where was this
> dicussion at?  

I've been involved in several informal discussions of the subject at
devsummits and online chats.  I honestly thought you were present for
one at a BSDCan devsummit.

-- Brooks
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