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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