Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote: > >> That's good to hear. Why do they refuse to ship a make that is less >> than 8 years old? > > Our linux compute machines [ubuntu 12.04] is also has 3.81 > > Fedora Linux is still at 3.82 > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=813
4.0 was only released last fall, but 3.82 has been out for several years. It had a very minor backward incompatibility in resolving multiple applicable pattern rules (new rule is that the shortest stem wins) which affected a couple packages at the time, though they promply updated. > Per > https://ia601008.us.archive.org/7/items/OhioLinuxfest2013/24-Rob_Landley-The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Copyleft.mp3 > Apple doesn't want touch GPL3 code [hence froze gcc at 4.2 and started > investing in clang]. They hired Chris Lattner in 2005, well before GPLv3 (2007). > But this issue doesn't exist for gnumake. [I see its GPL2+] No, it is GPLv3+ since 3.82. Stupid ideology wars and the only true losers are the users and developers caught in the middle.
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