[geeks] Backup software (yeah, yeah, I know)

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
> Warning: rant ahead.
...
> pkg-config's configure script required manual editing to even make it
> run to completion, never mind actually work right. This, to me, throws
> major doubt on the quality of the rest of the software involved.
...
> glib, in turn, uses this disaster (in addition to the ./configure
> disaster).  But aside from that, its configure script too needed manual
> editing to even complete (it made invalid assumptions about statfs()
> and thus errored out needlessly partway through).
> 
> glib copies pkg-config's mistake of assuming the bytes making up a
> pthread_mutex_t is a sane thing to build a #define for.  It too has
> dead functions and variables; it passes arguments of the wrong type;
...

> glib's got busted preprocessor logic, despite this being exactly what
> ./configure is supposed to eliminate, in one of its files.  I just
> ripped out a page or two of code and stuck in something right for the
> system at hand.


I believe to this point, all the above is the fault of the Gnome
project.  I remain firm in my belief that Gnome is Microsofting Linux.



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