Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024, 2:19 PM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 1:50 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
> >
> > --------
> > Alan Somers writes:
> >
> > > For example, libifconfig and the /dev/cam/ctl ioctls are both unstable.
> > > A port that uses one of those and is built for FreeBSD 14.0 won't
> > > necessarily work for 14.1.
> >
> > Isn't that also a problem today ?
> >
> > What difference does it make that src is distributed as a package ?
>
> Not "a package" but "many packages".  The pkgbase concept builds a
> separate package for almost every dir under lib, bin, sbin, usr.bin,
> and usr.sbin.  So the problem will be that libifconfig and its
> consumers will be distributed separately, whereas they are currently
> distributed together.
>

Won't versions and dependencies solve this? They aren't tied to a kernel
version since its a stable ABI.

Warnrr

> -Alan
>