Zack Weinberg on Nostr: Side bar, I know a lot of people are saying "time to scrap autotools for good, ...
Side bar, I know a lot of people are saying "time to scrap autotools for good, everyone should just use cmake/meson/GN/Basel/..." I have a couple different responses to that depending on my mood, but the important one right now is: Do you honestly believe that your replacement of choice is *enough* better, readability wise, that folks will actually review patches to build machinery carefully enough to catch this kind of insider attack?
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2024-04-02 01:11:46Event JSON
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