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SubjectRe: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest))
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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