Post AsKzM1a8PCvPOPPBQ0 by SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AsKzM1a8PCvPOPPBQ0 by SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social
2025-03-23T03:50:50Z
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Related the current drama about uutils being MIT:Didn't the EUPL happened, among other reasons, because the GPL was funny with EU law?Like, I get that bigcorp bad and believe me when I say I love to see them fucked but maybe the drama is a bit overblow.#gnu #uutils #license #legal #drama #rant
(DIR) Post #AsKzM2u1UkQbUNia3c by SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social
2025-03-23T03:52:22Z
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Also, in my experience GNU coreutils and other standard tooling has a shitty and outdated UI/UX.You might be used to it and it might also be ubicuous but that doesn't mean it sucks less.
(DIR) Post #AsKzM3xxXbAemsZEpc by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-03-23T06:17:51.111004Z
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@SrEstegosaurio The EUPL was written as people couldn't help but write yet another license; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#EUPL-1.2The GPLv1, GPLv2 and GPLv3 are all perfectly valid under EU copyright laws, but I guess some people didn't like how it ensures freedom in some ways?GNU coreutils has the best UI/UX in the world - it's beautiful to compose the flags and arguments in GNU bash.Standard tooling? You mean the rest of the GNU software?; https://www.gnu.org/software/ most of which isn't tools.
(DIR) Post #AsMkWZiVEmIz9yoPU8 by SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social
2025-03-23T23:17:45Z
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@Suiseiseki GNU Autotools are crimes against humanity if you ask me.Not saying everything GNU is bad but a lot of things are ancient at best.
(DIR) Post #AsMkWab5xnyRtIM0Zs by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-03-24T02:41:08.214220Z
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@SrEstegosaurio I love seeing GNU autotools output as it works great.Just because something is old doesn't mean it was bad.Of course a lot of GNU software was from the ancients, as it was started decades ago, but that software has been in development for decades, actually works and has the vast majority of bugs ironed out.
(DIR) Post #AsMm63oVQiLWaq6XxY by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-03-24T02:58:49.077265Z
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@Suiseiseki @SrEstegosaurio unless it is gnu autohell, there's a point at which a typed by hand bash script would be a better build system than gnu automake
(DIR) Post #AsMmybi3caiHMD69Ro by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-03-24T03:08:37.236155Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @SrEstegosaurio A handcrafted bash script wouldn't be portable between GNU/Linux-libre, GNU/Hurd and the BSDs etc.Generally if you don't care about portability, you just write a makefile for GNU/Linux-libre and then run it with GNU make.Autotools has the feature where it can automatically generates makefiles on every platform.
(DIR) Post #AsMp8YjdjdfGw6iBRA by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-03-24T03:32:53.036955Z
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@Suiseiseki @SrEstegosaurio i just write my makefiles as posix-ly as possible and pretend the bsds aren't a thing.
(DIR) Post #AsMyMXDZ4YV9s7RoRM by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-03-24T04:59:11.276433Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @SrEstegosaurio The only reason why you would want to write something POSIX is if you want it to run on macos or the BSDs - instead you would write something GNUly.
(DIR) Post #AsMyMY0U8fdKJqKsgy by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-03-24T05:16:14.231274Z
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@Suiseiseki @SrEstegosaurio as i said, i write my makefile posixly, if it works somewhere else than my machine good, if not i don't care.