Hi,

SOrry for my late reply.

Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:13:38PM +0900, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
>> I want to use got under NetBSD in future.
>> NetBSD's package management system, pkgsrc dislikes == comparison
>> in test/[.
>> It was my motivation.
>> 
>> GNU sed's -i is always headache for me too.
>> 
>> My patch is intended to fix one problem.
>> I would like to submit another patch later.
>
> Patches for better cross-platform compatibility are always welcome.
> If the change improves POSIX compatibility or will work on any *BSD,
> please send the patch.

Thank you.

> If you need to make NetBSD-specific changes, it would be better for me to
> keep those changes separate. Perhaps they could be maintained as patch files
> in pkgsrc. (The FreeBSD port stores FreeBSD-specific changes as patches in
> the FreeBSD ports tree.) Alternatively, I could create a got-portable.git
> repository on git.gameoftrees.org for cross-project collaboration.

Christian Weisgerber has introduced FreeBSD Ports effort too to me.
For NetBSD, I will follow their FreeBSD Ports way.

And like other softwares originated from OpenBSD, the portable
project may be useful.
However I have no idea how much effort is required to keep two
repositories...

> By the way, about 18 months ago, Thomas Klausner was trying to port Got
> to NetBSD. This effort stopped because of portability difficulties.
> But because Got now runs on FreeBSD I expect most of these problems
> have now been solved.

I know Thomas well.
Thanks for your portability effort.
I will create pkgsrc package in FreeBSD Ports way.

> Regards,
> Stefan

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