I'll emphasize, I did not say "autosuite is always bad". Autotools has it
uses (maybe a more modern implementation would be nicer, but nevertheless it
does the job).
But what I'm saying is,
1) Nowadays supporting some legacy systems is simply not cost efficient. And
supporting legacy systems will
Hi
Long ago there was a thread on the ivrix-discuss mailing list with the
title "SI1452 insanity"[1]. I've been a long time proponent of the "lyx"
variant of the Israely X11 keyboard layout rather than the standard one
(Standard of Israel no. 1452).
Luckily in thr last year there has been some wo
Do you have room in your software company to adopt a good programmer?
We found this hacker wandering around without tags in large enterprise
company. He had been abused for some time but is still able to produce code,
and quite lovable.
He was apparently raised in startups, Where he had 15 years
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> But it's a system (or user-installed) library. Why would I need to bundle
> it with my code?
>
You just hit the nail on its head!
Few years ago, you were correct, harddisks were thin, memory was spare, and
if you could use a preinstalled lib
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011, Elazar Leibovich wrote about "Re: Die GNU autotools":
> Few years ago, you were correct, harddisks were thin, memory was spare, and
> if you could use a preinstalled library it'll be a great benefit.
> Nowadays, developer time is expensive, QA time is expensive, support time i
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Justin wrote:
Do you have room in your software company to adopt a good programmer?
We found this hacker wandering around without tags in large
enterprise company. He had been abused for some time but is still
able to produce code, and quite lovable.
..
I think you described correctly the root of the disagreement.
I believe that any software (including free software) is written not as to
implement an Aristotle's Ideal, but to be used by as many people as
possible, and to be useful for them.
So when I'm writing a free software, I'm trying to make i
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:45:45PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> I think you described correctly the root of the disagreement.
> I believe that any software (including free software) is written not as to
> implement an Aristotle's Ideal, but to be used by as many people as
> possible, and to be
