Re: lots of fatal build system bugs on OpenBSD

2022-03-22 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ingo Schwarze wrote in : |Douglas McIlroy wrote on Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:58:19AM -0400: |> Tangential comment: |> I have always recoiled from git. | |I agree to some extent. Git does get a number of things right, but |there are also many aspects of its user interface and design that make

Re: lots of fatal build system bugs on OpenBSD

2022-03-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 07:59:10PM +1100: > At 2022-03-22T00:54:05+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> There are so many issues already now that it makes sense to get >> these fixed before even starting a review for cleanliness and >> before starting run time testi

Re: lots of fatal build system bugs on OpenBSD

2022-03-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Doug, Douglas McIlroy wrote on Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:58:19AM -0400: > Tangential comment: > I have always recoiled from git. I agree to some extent. Git does get a number of things right, but there are also many aspects of its user interface and design that make it harder to use than neces

Re: lots of fatal build system bugs on OpenBSD

2022-03-22 Thread Douglas McIlroy
Tangential comment: I have always recoiled from git. The appearance of "diff --git" in Ingo's post reinforced my aversion.. --git is not mentioned in any documentation (man or texinfo) I could get my hands on. Gnu diff's 100-line help message is depressing enough even without --git. Where did --

Re: lots of fatal build system bugs on OpenBSD

2022-03-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Ingo! At 2022-03-22T00:54:05+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: [...] > There are so many issues already now that it makes sense to get > these fixed before even starting a review for cleanliness and > before starting run time testing. Yes. I think nearly all of the issues arise from two deficiencie