Re: [hackers] [dev][slstatus] FreeBSD port?

From: Michael Buch <michaelbuch12_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:15:49 +0000

Indeed personally I thought the $(OS) directories in the original Makefile
made for a cleaner way to port. Though before working on a rewrite/revert
some consensus on this would be good.

Thanks,
Michael

Am Do., 24. Jan. 2019 um 19:37 Uhr schrieb Quentin Rameau <quinq_AT_fifth.space
>:

> > Hi,
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> > As part of my setup of FreeBSD I ported slstatus. Is the mainline a place
> > to commit such patches given the platform dependence of a tool like
> > slstatus? I guess porting to new platforms can increase the size of the
> > code base significantly if one sticks to the current project structure.
> Or
> > is a port like this better suited simply as a fork?
>
> The place would be indeed the suckless repo as it already had the goal
> to support multiple OSes.
>
> Maybe then, we could revert to having a source/object file per target!
>
>
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