From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:57:29 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnick To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive Message-ID: <20060426225729.GR20406@submarine> References: <20060426005301.GF27116@submarine> <57a21f730604251915y2344526ey629c2cb0de0055fb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57a21f730604251915y2344526ey629c2cb0de0055fb@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 46930358-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:43PM -0700, Taj Khattra wrote: > > The worst of it is -- on a number of occasions glibc developers stated > > that they have no interest in supporting compilers other than gcc. > > http://udrepper.livejournal.com/7326.html: > The only OSes supported in the [glibc] tree are Linux and to some > extend Hurd. > ... > For my new projects the razor is even sharper. Only Linux is supported... > > we should be eternally grateful :) What is fascinating is a kind of rhetoric he uses. Even though his intent seems to be just the opposite one he comes across very much like being a part of a "violent minority" of a particular sort. Although, his mental condition, which manifests itself a bit in his writing, could help explain why it takes 31 lines of code to just declare a couple of function in glibc. Which makes me wonder -- with glibc and gcc descending into this political madness doesn't it actually kill the FSF/GNU movement ? Thanks, Roman. P.S. I've kind of come to terms with the fact that working for Sun and porting Sun's compilers to Linux makes me a "violent minority" but I'm not sure whether it also makes me "pure evil" ;-)