svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sun Jun 14 19:07:07 UTC 2015


On 14 June 2015 at 12:02, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 14, 2015, at 11:53, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> We have busybox already - it's called bsdbox, and it's in base, and
>> we're already using it, and yes, it does pull in libxo. :)
>>
>> I'm not worried about the size increase of libxo. That's the wrong
>> thing to focus on. If it gets much more bloated then I'll poke people
>> with the big "what are you thinking" stick. The issues people have
>> aren't size related, they're "this API needs improvement and we have
>> bugs introduced into tools."
>>
>> I do like how zero percent of the comments are "hey, maybe we need
>> unit tests that run these tools and ensure they output the right
>> stuff." If this were ${WORK} and I were ${BOSS}, I'd have asked the
>> libxo developers to include unit tests before/after for each thing
>> they broke, so we don't have a repeat of this kind of thing. But, this
>> apparently isn't ${WORK} and I definitely don't want to be anyones
>> boss, so..
>
> Ugh. I'll write the tests ;(...

I'm not your boss!

(but if you go and do it - great! thankyou! This is what should've
been neckbearded, not the rest of the thread!)


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