Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:24:31 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)) |
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:44:10PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:09:39AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > > > >> > '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...). > > > > I don't know in which universe you live, but in my universe software > > that does not fix severe bugs after 7 years or does not publish a new > > version at least every 2-3 years is called deas and unmaintained. Both > > applies to GNU make. > > Uhm, the version of GNU make in Debian (3.81beta4) was released > 12 December 2005; I wouldn't call that dead (or unmaintained).
Oh, and as an update, 3.81rc1 was release on the 19th of February 2006.
Yeah, very unmaintained and dead upstream...
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