Debian and GNU maintenance, was Re: BitKeeper licence critic
Joerg Schilling
schilling at fokus.gmd.de
Tue Mar 19 11:03:55 UTC 2002
>From mjr at dsl.pipex.com Tue Mar 19 11:58:24 2002
>> As the bug description was filed to them at least 3 years ago GNU make
>> should have been restructured meahwhile or it is not actively maintained
>> anymore.
>Maybe your propsed algorithm was infeasible? Previous comments from the
>bugs list pointed here suggest that there was no realistic implementation
>offered and no convincing case made. Indeed, it appears that the discussion
>happened in an obscure newsgroup rather than on the correct list. Pretty
>much the same as this discussion of debian and cdrecord is on the wrong
>list...
Completely wrong and you should know this!
Smake implements it the right way so there is even a reference implementation.
Jörg
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