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Glibc Steering Committee Dissolves; Switches To Co-Operative Development Model

Posted by timothy on from the part-of-an-autonomous-collective dept.

First time accepted submitter bheading writes "Following years under controversial leadership which, among other things, led to a fork (which was in turn adopted by some of the major distributions) the glibc development process has been reinvented to follow a slightly more informal, community-based model. Here's hoping glibc benefits from a welcome dose of pragmatism."

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  1. Summary by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The pissing match between RMS and Drepper that resulted in the steering committee is no longer longer relevant now Drepper has gone to work at Goldman Sachs (something that makes me smile: I can't think of any other company more deserving of him).

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    1. Re:Summary by bheading · · Score: 4, Interesting

      When I wrote about pragmatism I was thinking of this problem where a modification to glibc's malloc() implementation broke the Adobe flash player. It is worth contrasting the attitude of Linus Torvalds in that thread with that of the glibc maintainers. I think most reasonable people would agree there is a trade off between supporting broken applications and ensuring things are done right. In this case, it would have cost glibc nothing to make a minor concession.

  2. Re:fork valley by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those are not forks, they are different implementations. The Android libc is based on FreeBSD libc with some tweaks. It does not share code with glibc.

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  3. Re:Drepper and Theo are great men. Respect them. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Theo and Drepper are very different. Theo is usually technically correct and has no time for people who can't work out why for themselves. Drepper is very often wrong, and is still an asshat in these cases.

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  4. Re:Drepper and Theo are great men. Respect them. by rgbrenner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I first started using Linux (about '97).. I emailed Torvalds to say that I thought Linux needed to advertise because a lot of people didn't know it existed. He actually responded and politely explained how the project is put together/why that wasn't going to happen.

  5. Re:Excessive "modularity" can become hell. by slashbart · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Amen!
    I like Qt's approach with only a couple of large libraries (QtCore, QtGui, QtXml, ...) where each has a very clear usage, and if you don't want graphics you don't use QtGui, but if you do, everything is in QtGui. Here's the list