a general question: would a rewrite in Python or some other language, to keep the same functionality as the current implementation, a viable goal, or that would not be a productive thing to do?
On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 1:44 PM Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 May 2021, Karl Berry wrote: > > > > (*) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html > > So far the response has been nil. > > I don't recall seeing that email. I did see an email thread regarding > Autoconf which immediately became a lot of "need to support this soon" > and "wouldn't it be nice" discussion, totally missing the point of the > text they were reponding to (i.e. "project is on the gurney and may > expire without help"). > > Regardless, "baby bird" syndrome seems to be striking a great many > established free software projects which are mature and heavily used. > > Projects operated by billion dollar companies with teams of developers > paid to sit in a cubicles and write free sofware seem to be doing > fine. > > Unfortunately, this is not the model for most GNU projects. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt > -- Andy Tai, a...@atai.org, Skype: licheng.tai, Line: andy_tai, WeChat: andytai1010 Year 2021 民國110年 自動的精神力是信仰與覺悟 自動的行為力是勞動與技能
