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Certain software becomes finished over time, especially POSIX-conformant software. It seems like today's young kids get very agitated if a project hasn't seen m
by Jkvngt 6y ago
Certain software becomes finished over time, especially POSIX-conformant software. It seems like today's young kids get very agitated if a project hasn't seen multiple commits per hour, but those of us who are a little older and wiser appreciate when software becomes finished.
- rurban 6y agoautoconf-archive still has tons of improvements. You can still fix or add ax probes as you want or need. autoconf itself is stable enough, no need to change anything. If they are problems, they are elsewhere, as eg. in makeinfo. Or there is no proper way to create/maintain man files from gnu docs. Pod, markdown or manually seem to be the preferred ways, doxygen or pandoc rather not. gnulib is a huge icebreaker driving through the pack ice in a very fast tempo. But still not good enough to provide unicode support for coreutils and friends (sed, grep, find). Let's see.