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New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:10 pm
by whowhatwhere
http://www.eglibc.org/
Apparently the Debian project decided it was worth switching to from regular GLIBC. I agree, wholeheartedly. As a hobbyist maintainer for packages in Linux, I've had to deal with so much crap regarding GLIBC that I think this is an extremely smart move. After seeing bug reports from Ulrich Drepper, [1][2][3][4] I understand quite well why GLIBC is such a miserable failure, and I'm glad to see there are intelligent people working on the problem with clearly defined goals for the project.
What are your opinions?
1.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5531
2.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980
3.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4403
4.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5070
(Ad infinitum, by theory of extrapolation.)
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 10:38 pm
by JohnnyTheDon
It seems like a good switch. I've been really disillusioned about GNU in general, their ethical positions (if they deserve to be called that) seem to ignore the quality of the software altogether. And having a maniac running around doesn't even serve a pseudo-ethical purpose.
Hopefully we'll see more forks from GNU software to seperate development communities less prone to the problems that plague GNU.
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 10:59 pm
by Osbios
I read about that fork on some other news page.
And with this examples it really surprises me that this took so long.
The glibc is one of the fundamental system libs and therefor I would expect a bit more professionalism of developers working on it. No support for Arm because its "crap"?? wtf
Well now we know that not only doctors have to struggle with such nasty thinks like God complexes.
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 1:11 am
by Solar
Wow... that Ulrich Drepper character sure is a handfull. How do you kick out a person that's clearly hurting the project?
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 1:40 am
by whowhatwhere
Solar wrote:
Wow... that Ulrich Drepper character sure is a handfull. How do you kick out a person that's clearly hurting the project?
I know, I read some of his work on his Redhat page when looking up stuff about binutils. After I started really analysing Glibc and it's failures, I found his commits. Then I found the bug reports, and those are just samples. GNU could have done so much, but they fail every practicality required to be successful. The gnutards are so busy being evangelistic they forget about truth and reality. FREE SOFTWARE WILL SURPASS JESUS AND THE GLOBAL ESTABLISHMENT AND GIVE WORLD PEACE, ZOMG FOLLOW US CUZ WE ROX KK?
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 10:48 am
by blound
Solar wrote:
Wow... that Ulrich Drepper character sure is a handfull. How do you kick out a person that's clearly hurting the project?
he has been in charge so long and he is very technically skilled as well, I doubt that such a move would happen
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:02 am
by Solar
blound wrote:...he is very technically skilled as well...
Perfect example for how a software engineer, no matter how technically skilled, is nothing but a PITA if he doesn't have soft skills.
People like him should, in the very least, be "wrapped" by someone who does external communication for him and hits him with a mallet whenever he steps out of line...
Re: New LibC: eGLIBC
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:36 am
by whowhatwhere
Solar wrote:blound wrote:...he is very technically skilled as well...
Perfect example for how a software engineer, no matter how technically skilled, is nothing but a PITA if he doesn't have soft skills.
People like him should, in the very least, be "wrapped" by someone who does external communication for him and hits him with a mallet whenever he steps out of line...
"Mallet" reminds me of
this.
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