* Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> schrieb:
> 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.
You didn't get my point. I was talking about the way of copying
in (parts of) gnulib into other package's source tree in an
unpredicable way, directly within the build process.
The clean way (tm) would be making it a real library, that's
just imported by other packages and maybe provides some
additional autoconf macros. I'm currently in the process of
doing exactly that.
git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/gnulib-src.git
git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/coreutils.git
cu
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