Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:53:17 -0600 | From | Tim Walberg <> | Subject | Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)) |
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On 02/23/2006 18:32 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Hmmm... from the GNU Make web page: >> > >> > >> > >> > Version 3.80 (stable) released on 2002-10-04 00:00:00.000 >> > >> > >> > >> > Seems to me that's slightly less than 6 years, but then I was never >> > >> > that great at math... Maybe I missed something.... >> > >> >> > >> And why are the accepted bugs from 1999 not yet fixed? >> > >> >> > >> > 'accepted "bugs" not being fixed' is not equivalent to 'package is >> > not being maintained'... at least not in my admittedly meager grasp >> > of logic... >> >> They told me that fixing would take "a while". If you believe that >> "a while" is 20 years, then you seem to live in a different universe then I do. >>
Indeed... I had already concluded that. It now seems that in your universe, the time span between 1999 and 2006 is on the order of 20 years, which seems to be a factor of nearly 3 over what it is in my universe (either that, or it's not 2006 where you are, but rather 2019...).
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