Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932091AbWBWRxX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:53:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932100AbWBWRxX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:53:23 -0500 Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.64]:39044 "EHLO smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932091AbWBWRxW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:53:22 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=mindspring.com; b=Y3wa8AGANljLZHf6m1wymWlqmSFzKxW1zRm0ZqCpD/cd1dfGH/Kg/s346trmRKU6; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:Reply-To:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:Errors-To:X-PGP-RSA-Key:X-PGP-RSA-Fingerprint:X-PGP-DSS-Key:X-PGP-DSS-Fingerprint:X-URL:User-Agent:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:53:17 -0600 From: Tim Walberg To: Joerg Schilling Cc: twalberg@mindspring.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)) Message-ID: <20060223175317.GD31520@mindspring.com> Reply-To: Tim Walberg Mail-Followup-To: Tim Walberg , Joerg Schilling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060221101644.GA19643@merlin.emma.line.org> <43FAF2FA.nailD12BW90DH@burner> <20060221114625.GA29439@merlin.emma.line.org> <43FC68C1.nailEC711MJAV@burner> <20060223081257.GA28833@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <43FDD944.nailFUE21NE9H@burner> <20060223160238.GA31520@mindspring.com> <43FDE983.nailFWR613JK4@burner> <20060223172346.GB31520@mindspring.com> <43FDF193.nailG0L117NIN@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43FDF193.nailG0L117NIN@burner> X-PGP-RSA-Key: 0x0C8BA2FD at www.pgp.com (pgp.ai.mit.edu) X-PGP-RSA-Fingerprint: FC08 4026 8A62 C72F 90A9 FA33 6EEA 542D X-PGP-DSS-Key: 0x6DAB2566 at www.pgp.com (pgp.ai.mit.edu) X-PGP-DSS-Fingerprint: 4E1B CD33 46D0 F383 1579 1CCA C3E5 9C8F 6DAB 2566 X-URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~twalberg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-ELNK-Trace: 51223d6fa76962de9c7f779228e2f6aeda0071232e20db4d0b6a7a3dcd1427db454beddf7abc4e9b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.3.103.64 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 35 On 02/23/2006 18:32 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Tim Walberg 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...). -- twalberg@mindspring.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/