Re: Some rather stupid questions about Rust and FreeBSD

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 1:58 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
>
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
>  <20240912194859.8xZAdMX3@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
>  ...
>  ||* I considered writing the fusefs test suite in Rust.  It would've
>  ||been well-suited.  But I was forced to do it in C++ instead.
>
> Btw i have forgotten to give you sympathy for this.
>
> But i am wondering in general, the OpenBSD guys (no girls at all
> i think, except a plus HTML generator that is now also gone
> i think) seem to allow "external" toolchains for at least tests.
> I am pretty confident i have often seen a network stack guy
> (German i think) to use Python for network tests.
> Wouldn't this be an option for FreeBSD, to allow at least certain
> parts of the unit tests to be written in freely chosen languages?

Actually, that's already the case.  FreeBSD already has quite a few
test programs written in Python.  That's not a problem, because Python
is an interpreted language.  We install the .py files directly to
/usr/tests.  A Python interpreter is required to execute the tests,
but not to build them.  That's not true of a compiled language like
Rust.

-Alan