Re: git maintenance broken on FreeBSD

> On 2022-08-13 at 17:26:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Does FreeBSD offer choices of cron implementations other than Vixie,
>> just like some Linux distributions?  If somebody on a non-FreeBSD
>> platform happens to choose to use Vixie, then they would presumably
>> have the same problem, so a compile-time switch, whose default is
>> hardcoded based on the target platform, would not work very well.
>> The default will be wrong for some users, and users can later choose
>> to switch between different cron implementations.
> 
> I'm using Debian unstable, and I'm using Vixie cron.  I believe that's
> the default implementation.  However, I could also well use cronie,
> since that's available in Debian as well.  So, yeah, I think this is a
> thing to consider.
> 
>> Configuration knob can be used as a workaround, but in this case, I
>> am not sure if it is worth doing.  What's the downside of securely
>> opening a temporary file and write whatever we are currently piping
>> to a spawned "crontab" command and then giving the path to that
>> temporary file to the "crontab" command?  Wouldn't that give us the
>> maximal portability without that much code, no?
> 
> I think we should try to provide an option which works across at least
> the versions on a particular OS.  The temporary file seems like a nice,
> portable option, so I think we should just do that unless there's some
> practical objection.
> 
> If Derrick doesn't get to it this next week, I can send a patch.