Re: A Demo of rust-in-base

On Aug 5, 2024, at 1:41 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> Alan Somers writes:
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>> If the fusefs test suite were external, [...]
>> Any user running the tests would need to build the
>> port about once per month, if they track stable/13. [...]
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> I understand that, and I share your pain:  I've been
> there myself with code I have maintained for customers.
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> But isn't this a transient problem ?  I would expect fusefs,
> like everything else, to settle down over time ?
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> Also: How many people are we talking about, world-wide ?
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> A dozen ?  Four dozens ?
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> Adding Rust to src would inconvenience /everybody/, every time they
> do a "make buildworld".
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> The solution is not to add Rust to src.
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> The solution is to get rid of the "Src is the holy ivory tower,
> everything else is barbarians" mentality, which have gotten us into
> trouble with ISDN, ATM, Perl and much else over the years.

Amen!