> Absolutely right! You got it!
>
> System V and Pure BSD are just like the USA and USSR during the Cold War. We,
Last time I checked, the Cold War was kinda over ...
> the Pure BSD camp, will never have anything from Missed'em-five. That's why we
> are *pure* BSD. Being SysVile-free is what we are by definition.
[...]
> [Taking off my right shoe, pounding it on the desk, waving it at POSIX and
> Missed'em-five, and yelling "We will bury you!"...]
Putting on my ranting hat ...
Personally, I consider this list a technical mailing list. Personally,
I think that your comments are way out of line for this list. Even if
your comments are ';-)', they serve no real purpose.
No matter which personal preference of OS, I believe that the autoconf
automake libtool maintainers strive for maximum portability, even portability
to "old" systems, or systems which are considered obsolete. The tools
should work on any actual, running platform out there, ideally.
If certain features of the software don't work as expected on a given
platform, this can be worked around. If something like this happens, I
very much don't presume ignorance in the developer's camp, but possibly just
lack of information(*1). This can be rectified by exchange of information.
(Yeah, right down to basics here.) The term is, "constructive criticism".
Yadda yadda like "we will never have this SVR crap on our pure BSD systems"
is not helpful (to abuse a famous quote, "we play both types here"; or
something like that ...).
*1 Use the System 7 man pages; I'd test everything for compliance with those.
--
Typing this while logged into a Solaris box from an OpenBSD box ...
