Should we fork Samba?
You fork a surprising number of the projects that you don't seem to even like in the first place
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technosaurus
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I never liked GPL3, and I'm not the only one.disciple wrote:You fork a surprising number of the projects that you don't seem to even like in the first place
If anyone has a request that I fork other popular projects that have gone to the dark side of OSS, let me know (mupdf is on my TODO list already)
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
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technosaurus
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"2.18 and 4.2.2" Venerable versions there. I still build and use gcc-4.2 for some really old code. One of the main uses I have for gcc-4.2 is to compile gcc-3.4.6 which I use to compile really ancient code. Of course, by now I've gotten much better at patching old sources to compile with newer toolchains. The exception is for old C++ code. I pretty much refuse to learn anything about C++, so I still need the old tools sometimes!
I'm no fan of GPL3 either, but I don't let it get me off the track. I reject newer versions for more practical reasons. For instance, the source code for gcc is now written in C++, which means we now have a C compiler which is not able to reproduce itself, which is the gold standard by which compilers are judged. I'm currently using gcc-4.5.3 and don't really plan to update until I find that glibc will no longer compile with this old gcc version. And, when that happens, I'm hpoing that LLVM or clang will be far enough along to switch to them.
I also have never used the gold linker stuff -I have better things to do than trying to extract every gram of performance/size out of sources. Life is to short to get hung up on such things. Getting side-tracked on such details would make it impossible to build and maintain my own system at a usable level. I do enjoy being completely free of any dependence on other distros -I am always up-to-date because I am always running the latest version of my OS. LOL
I'm no fan of GPL3 either, but I don't let it get me off the track. I reject newer versions for more practical reasons. For instance, the source code for gcc is now written in C++, which means we now have a C compiler which is not able to reproduce itself, which is the gold standard by which compilers are judged. I'm currently using gcc-4.5.3 and don't really plan to update until I find that glibc will no longer compile with this old gcc version. And, when that happens, I'm hpoing that LLVM or clang will be far enough along to switch to them.
I also have never used the gold linker stuff -I have better things to do than trying to extract every gram of performance/size out of sources. Life is to short to get hung up on such things. Getting side-tracked on such details would make it impossible to build and maintain my own system at a usable level. I do enjoy being completely free of any dependence on other distros -I am always up-to-date because I am always running the latest version of my OS. LOL