On 12.12.2014 03:00, Richard Toohey wrote:
Hi, guys.
This might be more a question for ports@ but it is also a general "do
you use it" question.
I've been trying to help the MOC maintainer with testing changes on
OpenBSD.
He wants to use some newer POSIX features but it seems that if he
does so, he'll have to leave OpenBSD behind. I say "it seems"
because
I might have led him in the wrong direction.
I'm definitely not the best person to advise him, so asking the
general OpenBSD crowd if:
(1) they use MOC or
(2) have any interest in support for it on OpenBSD or
(3) can help with the POSIX questions.
The maintainer has asked the same question on a MOC forum:
http://moc.daper.net/node/1369
Hmmmmmm
"According to the OpenBSD sys/unistd.h header, the version of the
POSIX.1 standard it targets for compliance is the 1990 one. Whatever
their reasons, that standard's nearly a quarter of a century old now, so
maybe in the interests of moving MOC forward we have to leave OpenBSD
behind on MOC 2.5."
So just because something is old it's automatically bad and useless and
for all costs wheel must be reinvented? Better to keep away from that
type of people, developers and products.
"3. Move away from OpenBSD (probably to FreeBSD or NetBSD, both of
which target the 2001 standard)"
aka don't think about why there's used different standard, simply run
away to another bright future.........
Thanks,
Richard.
