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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] cmake-utils.eclass: Make ninja default backend in EAPI >= 7
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:02:14
Message-Id: 1536865314.741.2.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] cmake-utils.eclass: Make ninja default backend in EAPI >= 7 by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 20:55 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
2 > On Donnerstag, 13. September 2018 16:25:13 CEST Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 > > This may effect your plans to enable ninja by default, since it will
4 > > break any fortran package.
5 >
6 > Not much concerned about that; backend default can be overridden by package,
7 > should its maintainer find out it breaks by EAPI-7 bump.
8 >
9
10 ...and soon enough we end up tracking packages whose default backend
11 needed to be changed because the maintainer had to workaround bugs
12 in a particular ninja version.
13
14 Am I the only one who misses the times when programmers made working
15 software and tried to fix bugs rather than releasing whatever satisfies
16 some internal use case, and ignoring bugs that didn't affect it?
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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