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

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

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.

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