Re: Announcing freebsd-rustdate

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 05:15:11PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Alan Somers, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> * Revision control.

As a man of culture and taste, I'm naturally doing my work in bzr
rather than git.  Maybe I can try and get a real project setup over
the weekend, but for now I've at least pushed my current trunk up to

https://code.launchpad.net/~fullermd/+junk/rustdate


> * Tests.  One of the things I like best about Rust is its testing
> infrastructure, and one of the things that scares me most about
> freebsd-update is its total lack of tests.  It has me afraid to
> change anything.

Rustdate does currently have some tests.  Mostly of the easy to test
stuff, like parsing the files from the server, and the various
internal data manipulation.  Testing the unimportant stuff like
actually manipulating the system, well, that's harder   :)

And at least you start out in a less scary place than trying to change
the .sh.  Things happen in local variables you pass around, rather
than global vars and "well-known" temp files that get written in one
place and arbitrarily read in another.  And being a compiled language
gives you a lot of compile-time complaining when you change function
args or data structures, instead of weird runtime glitches 8 months
later.


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