Re: shells/oh-my-posh

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 at 15:11, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost> wrote:
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> * On 2023-03-21 at 13:26 GMT, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
>
> > While it is perfectly reasonable to have pkgsrc packages targeting specific
> > architecture/platform combinations as part of its infrastructure, in my view
> > a leaf utility package like this should not be accepted if it does not build
> > under the main pkgsrc target platform.
>
> I realise we're veering well off-topic here, but I just want to register
> my complete opposition to any notion of NetBSD being the only "blessed"
> target operating system for pkgsrc, and that other platforms should be
> treated with less importance.
>
> For over 20 years we've been a cross-platform package manager, and it
> has contributed heavily to pkgsrc being what it is today.  One could
> argue it is by far and away its biggest strength.  Yes, TNF provide
> resources that help the project run, but I very much see pkgsrc as "a
> portable package manager that runs on over 20 operating systems", not
> "the NetBSD package manager that happens to run on some other OS too".
>
> Saying our users should not be able to install software just because it
> doesn't at present install on NetBSD, even though it builds fine on many
> of their target platforms, is certainly not what I would want them to
> hear.

I agree, I put it badly. What I meant to say - perhaps - was that out
of the supported by pkgsrc platforms:

      NetBSD Solaris Linux Darwin FreeBSD OpenBSD IRIX BSD/OS AIX
Interix DragonFlyBSD
      OSF/1 HP-UX Haiku MirBSD Minix3 Cygwin GNU/kFreeBSD

this package would be built successfully only on Linux and Darwin, 2
out of 18.

And it is indeed best to develop pkgsrc in as much as possible
platform-agnostic way, in order to ensure its long life. I don't
foresee or expect the demise of NetBSD any time soon, but still,
pkgsrc should be able to exist even then...  I also missed the fact
that it is the principal package manager in SmartOS.

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Chavdar


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