Support for *BSDs

[bartekpacia]

Basically the title.

I'm curious if there were any plans in the past to support FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, and if we can expect support in the future.

Before creating this issue, I read:

• Dart VM on FreeBSD #10260
• https://github.com/mulander/openbsd-dart

[a-siva]

At this point we have not revisited our decision from before of not actively supporting *BSD.

[EliphazBouye]

Hi @a-siva @mraleph please can you think again about your decision to not support *BSD ? please

[mraleph]

@EliphazBouye what is your use case? FreeBSD market share is almost nonexistent (well below 1%) so I don't think we can ever provide a first party support for it.

[EliphazBouye]

@mraleph ok but on the 1% must developers like me want to continue to make our Dart/Flutter application on *BSD too

[nex3]

This is something we're receiving substantial requests for in Dart Sass, even given the fact that we support running the compiled-to-JS version from Node.js as a workaround. See sass/dart-sass#2325 and sass/dart-sass#1173, and in turn sass-contrib/sass-embedded-host-ruby#228, sass-contrib/sass-embedded-host-ruby#227, nanoc/nanoc#1710, jekyll/jekyll#9462, and jekyll/jekyll#9493 which are downstream of us.

[a-siva]

//cc @mit-mit for your opinion on the above request.

[glaszig]

@mraleph what is your use case?

hosting on freebsd.

[a-siva]

At this point we don't have the resources to support *BSDs