Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/readline

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On 25 November 2016 at 06:56, John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> wrote:
> Pkgsrc *claims* to support DragonFly.  This claim is rather dubious because
> it's been broken for well over a year.  You've been party to related PRs and
> didn't lift a finger.
>
> If pkgsrc can't utilize readline on a platform, then in effect it doesn't
> support that platform.  The same goes for curses and openssl.
>
> My patch doesn't make anything else "cope".  You've got nothing to complain
> about other than perceived "dirtying".
>
> This wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't for pkgsrc's BRAIN DEAD test
> procedures that fail to test at least for the presence of the library
> yourself.
>
> I've been deep into pkgsrc code lately.  You guys keep talking about it as
> if it's a gold standard yet I see example after example of incredibly dumb
> decisions and implementations that have implications to both performance and
> portability.  There is also a fair amount of cruft in there.

Can you please tone it down a bit, step back from Defcon 1, and
consider other pkgsrc platforms, developers, and users, please?

I really don't appreciate seeing this kind of polemic on our mailing lists.

Thanks,
Alistair