Re: [GUILT] add FreeBSD support

> Hi Josef,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:20:46AM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:04:45PM +0800, gnehzuil.liu wrote:
> > > ?? 2013-8-9??????10:46??Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> д????
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:32:28PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > > >> From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
> > > >> 
> > > >> Currently guilt doesn't support FreeBSD platform.  This commit tries to
> > > >> add this support.  The file called 'os.FreeBSD' is copied from os.Darwin
> > > >> due to these two platforms have almost the same command tools.
> > > > 
> > > > Out of curiosity, is it identical?  I eyeballed it, and they do look
> > > > identical.  There's probably a better way to do this whole os-specific
> > > > thing, but this will work well enough for now.
> > > 
> > > Yes, it is identical.  Sorry, I am a newbie for guilt, but I am happy to
> > > improve this os-specific thing.    Any idea?
> > 
> > So, I'm a bit torn between some "build-time" checking that generates
> > something like an "os" file based on what it detects and something that
> > happens at runtime.  I like that currently there's nothing to do - you just
> > clone the repo and you're set.  At the same time, the more code can be
> > avoided executing the faster (in theory) guilt gets.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply.  I did a simple experiment that tries to fold
> all os.* files into one file and uses a if statement to export functions
> according to different platforms.  But frankly I don't like this because
> it is not very clearly.  So IMHO we'd better add a 'os.FreeBSD' file to
> support FreeBSD platform.