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Date: | Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:47:34 -0400 |
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From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
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> "* Your source builds using something that isn't GNU Make [ +10 points of > FAIL ]" > > I don't think all open source software should depend on GNU Make. I think he meant "does not build with GNU make" - i.e. requires some other make, or uses a non-make system. This might be a popularity test; most people have GNU make and are familiar with GNU make (and standard Makefiles), so if you can't build with that, a lot of people will be discouraged from helping. I feel that way about cmake - it might be a good system, but since I don't know it, I avoid things that use it. > The == History == part is buggy too: the only way to come up with a proper > open source software is to start it from scratch? I think he's saying that a copy of something else is less likely to thrive than something more individual. There have been lots of proprietary apps that have been "open sourced" but what they really mean is "we threw an old copy of the sources over the fence but we don't take care of it any more." Or, there have been OSS projects that got forked by some disgruntled user but the original authors still contribute to the original version. Etc.
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