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An important part to remember is that Cathedral refers to GCC and Bazaar to EGCS, which was a GCC fork that IIRC ESR was big part of and which ultimately replac
by p_l 1y ago
An important part to remember is that Cathedral refers to GCC and Bazaar to EGCS, which was a GCC fork that IIRC ESR was big part of and which ultimately replaced GCC
- roryirvine 1y agoI don't think ESR had anything to do with egcs directly but, yeah, the egcs/gcc split along with the XEmacs / GNU Emacs fracas were likely inspiration for CatB. He was always better known as a writer than as a developer - his most significant FOSS contributions were probably fetchmail prior to 2003, and the ill-fated CML2 kernel config system around 2001. I'm not aware of anything of note that he's produced since.
- p_l 1y agoWell, better said would be that ESR was... loud around EGCS? I got into Linux and FOSS essentially just as EGCS took over GCC for good, so I am less clear on details
- roryirvine 1y agoThat's fair! And, yes, he seemed to enjoy rushing into every flamewar he could find back then. It's one of the reasons this current tweet is so surprising - he's moaning about "drama and politics", "negative useful work", and "shit-stirrers" "who are more annoying to work with than [their] contributions justify", but doesn't seem to realise that all of those complaints could have been made more strongly still about ESR himself, especially when he was in his pomp.