Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:04:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, Daniel Capo Sobral <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, dcs@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS Message-ID: <3B967751.9DD98315@mindspring.com> References: <200109032330.f83NU9n02241@mass.dis.org> <200109041248.f84CmOa21358@mail.tcoip.com.br> <20010905092840.B96880@dragon.nuxi.com> <2001-09-05-18-58-33%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>
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Samuel Tardieu wrote: > Or why is BSD make used when the vast majority of Free Software developpers > use GNU make? 1) It actually works 2) It can operate with a Bourne shell, and does not depend on bash-isms 3) The files created to use it are more portable to other operating systems 4) It results in very terse (small) files, so even a full rewrite for a new OS's strange new/old "make" doesn't cost much more 5) It does dependencies right, so I can change 1 file out of a quarter of a million, and it does the right thing, instead of rebuilding everything 6) It does not have an onerous license 7) It is strongly maintained 8) It is easily ported to other operating systems, once you get over the stupid err()/errx() crap. 9) It is known to run on about 60 different UNIX variants 10) Inertia > Yes, this is a troll. No, it doesn't need a followup. I just don't buy > the 1% argument, it reminds me too much of what people say about the systems > I use. In order: Yet it was. Yes it does. Grow a thick skin. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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