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

[Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>]

On 02/23/2006 18:32 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>	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.
>>	

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...).


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