Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:09:39 +0100 | Subject | Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)) |
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Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> > '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...).
I don't know in which universe you live, but in my universe software that does not fix severe bugs after 7 years or does not publish a new version at least every 2-3 years is called deas and unmaintained. Both applies to GNU make.
Jörg
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