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Patrick Walton
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The other would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad thing here is the idea that in 2021 the GNU Coreutils have the market leverage to convince consumers to choose free software over proprietary alternatives
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Hector Martin
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Hey, want to take a guess what the @FSF's latest board member, Ian Kelling's, most recent contribution to Free Software is? That's right: harassing a project trying to rewrite common POSIX tools in Rust for being Anti-Freedom™. Because they chose the MIT license.
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kati is an Apache 2 licensed reimplementation of GNU make as a ninja frontend: github.com/google/kati It was built for AOSP to make incremental builds fast. It can be used elsewhere though. It was originally written in Go but they rewrote it in C++ for performance reasons.
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GitHub - google/kati: An experimental GNU make clone
An experimental GNU make clone. Contribute to google/kati development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Daniel Micay
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There are interesting details in github.com/google/kati/bl. It's drastically faster for incremental builds. Google is likely going to stop developing it when AOSP has finished getting rid of the make-based build system. It would be cool if other people forked it. It's really nice.
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kati/INTERNALS.md at master · google/kati
An experimental GNU make clone. Contribute to google/kati development by creating an account on GitHub.
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