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Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU m
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make? |
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Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:46:41 -0600 (CST) |
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Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Warren Young wrote:
Besides, why should BSD purity get to hold back the Autotools? If the
distrowatch.com stats are to be believed, *BSD's market share is under 1%
that of Linux, which itself is only about 1% of the overall market of
machines the Autotools can reasonably be used on. Further reduce that by the
percentage of BSD boxes that have not yet had gmake installed after
installation; 10% maybe? We're probably talking about a set of boxes
comprising < 0.001% of the market. (10% of 1% of 1%.)
I agree that there can be massive savings in effort if we only support
the 99 percenters and only support one common OS running only on the
common i686 platform. It should not matter that the 1% of developers
who are developing under some OS other than GNU/Linux produce vastly
more than 1% of the development innovations because they are still
actively using source code and doing interesting development work on
interesting hardware. At least 99% of GNU/Linux users (the 99
percenters) only use binary distributions and never look at source
code so there is hardly any value to the source code being "free" any
more and we should just tear up that manifesto and sign it all over to
a nice big umbrella corporation who will agree to provide us with our
binary distributions.
If we can just accept that GNU/Linux of a particular recent vintage
(e.g. Ubuntu 10.10) is the approved target than most of the configure
script tests can be removed and everything will be so much easier.
Bob
P.S. I choose to be a 1 percenter.
--
Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, (continued)
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Ralf Corsepius, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Ralf Corsepius, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Harlan Stenn, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Harlan Stenn, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?,
Bob Friesenhahn <=
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Paul Smith, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Dave Hart, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/23
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/11/23
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/23
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Dave Hart, 2011/11/23
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Harlan Stenn, 2011/11/22
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/23
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/11/23