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On Thursday, December 30, 2010 01:46:34 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib. |
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> Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really |
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> broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they |
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> also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets |
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> fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!) |
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> and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure |
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> "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code. Violating all rules |
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> of the very first semester in software engineering ;-o |
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yeah, once you start fixing Microsoft's runtime library and Solaris' C library |
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and old UNIX systems whose owners long died and ........, feel free to get |
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gnulib obsoleted. but until that happens, stop living in an unrealistic |
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world. gnulib exists for a very real reason and is extremely useful to many |
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many people. |
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-mike |
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