On Thursday, December 30, 2010 01:46:34 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib. > Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really > broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they > also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets > fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!) > and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure > "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code. Violating all rules > of the very first semester in software engineering ;-o
yeah, once you start fixing Microsoft's runtime library and Solaris' C library and old UNIX systems whose owners long died and ........, feel free to get gnulib obsoleted. but until that happens, stop living in an unrealistic world. gnulib exists for a very real reason and is extremely useful to many many people. -mike
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