Attendees

Organizer: Baptiste Daroussin
Ed Maste, ~10 others (attendee list lost, please update if you attended)

GPL'd components

  • GPLv2, not changing
  • No plans to make changes in the base system
  • In progress w/ Clang migration
  • External toolchain for non-Clang targets
  • Plan to remove / use external toolchain in 11
  • Is GPL, not LGPL
  • Now INTERNALLLIB for GDB, .so removed for 11
  • Remove also for 10.1?
  • Owner: bapt@
  • Extensions and GNU-specific behaviour make it difficult
  • bsdgrep in base has some failures (crashes on certain input)
  • Has bootstrap issues
  • Consider committing generated output
  • Update BSDL dtc to handle .dts files in the tree
  • Owner: theraven@
  • Options: remove / replace with openrcs
  • Pushback on removal
  • Need careful planning and publishing a deprecation strategy
  • hrs@ / imp@
  • Used by many GPL'd components
  • Disable building by default
  • Owner: bapt@
  • switch to mandoc
  • for ports, generate catpages for those manpages that do not work with mandoc
  • create roff-lite port for use by ports that need the catpage conversion
  • uqs@ has an interest, but no time?
  • ld is the main issue - lld (from llvm)
  • Migrate to LLDB as platform support develops
  • Owner: emaste@

Other notes

  • Private lib dir needs to be fixed (bapt@)
  • Is svnup a feasible svnlite replacement?
  • devsummit/201407/gplinbase.txt
  • Last modified: 2021/04/25 07:12
  • by JethroNederhof