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Debian switching to EGLIBCDebian switching to EGLIBCPosted May 6, 2009 17:06 UTC (Wed) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by BrucePerens Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC
It seems like a better analogy might be the egcs project. The X.org fork was a revolt against the organization that owned the copyrights, and involved a ton of bureaucratic mess in addition to the code changes. This, like egcs, seems more like an attempt to fork away from the existing maintenance structure while still working underneath the FSF umbrella. I'm sure their hope is that, after a few more releases and distro conversions, eventually EGLIBC just gets blessed as the "official" branch and we all forget about the old one.
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Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 6, 2009 19:57 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
eglibc even starts with the same letters as egcs, and includes *three* of
the same letters.
It is fated.
:)
Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 6, 2009 20:57 UTC (Wed) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link] Perhaps more to the point, it appears to involve some of the same people (eglibc development is organized by CodeSourcery; I suspect Mark Mitchell is familiar with gcc's history), and has the same copyright assignment rules.
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