Re: git: ac4c695ad61e - main - Retire WITHOUT_CXX option

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:30:30 UTC 
On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 at 04:19, Alexander Chernikov <melifaro@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > On 27 Jan 2023, at 02:14, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > The branch main has been updated by emaste:
> >
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ac4c695ad61e81d00cff2a03202a4afe94a92513
> >
> > commit ac4c695ad61e81d00cff2a03202a4afe94a92513
> > Author:     Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2022-11-16 14:20:39 +0000
> > Commit:     Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2023-01-27 02:13:16 +0000
> >
> >   Retire WITHOUT_CXX option
>
> Nice. Does that imply more openness in writing (or re-writing) userland core tools in C++?

This was prompted by WITHOUT_CXX producing a subtly broken system, as
we already have a few base system components written in C++. I don't
think large-scale conversion of existing tools to C++ makes a lot of
sense, but it can in individual cases.