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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 21:52:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 11:43:36 +0200, Michael S wrote:

> Pay attention that all this slow, complicated 'configure' business
> didn't originate on Windows.

And it doesn’t work well on Windows, anyway.

> It was invented in order to cover variety of Unixen. Which (variety)
> no longer exists, but religious 'free software' people like to
> pretend that it is still relevant and continue to use configure.

If it were purely a pretense, then it would be easy enough to devise a 
patch to get rid of all the unnecessary machinery and simplify the build.

The saying with Open Source is: “many eyes make all bugs shallow”. And 
overcomplicated ways of doing things count as bugs, too.