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Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

Posted Aug 21, 2012 14:22 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by cortana
Parent article: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

I felt a little sick reading this:
>For all its warts, autotools is the only system that caters adequately to the needs of all of the above groups.

Autotools at most is an equal-opportunity serial murder, which chooses its victims from any of the four listed groups indiscriminately.


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Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

Posted Aug 22, 2012 17:21 UTC (Wed) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]

I enjoyed your analogy, I may borrow it for many discussions at work I guess.
I wish LWN adds the "Unread comments by $USER"

Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

Posted Aug 23, 2012 22:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Recent versions of the autotools add parallel murder support if you set the AUTOMURDER_JOBS environment variable.

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