[PATCH] Remove dolt

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Sun Sep 12 15:16:37 PDT 2010


On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:50:32PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "AB" == Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> writes:
> 
> AB> This misses the Makefile.am part that was added later.
> 
> Good catch.  How is this, then?
> 

> commit 8874f6ec792fc9b599878844f5672ac398d26066
> Author: James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>
> Date:   Sun Sep 12 17:00:54 2010 -0400
>...
>     Libtool’s speed has improved enough that DOLT is no longer
>     worth the bother, even on those few systems where is works.
>...

The faster libtool was actually released more than a month *before* dolt 
was released.

The author of dolt was just clever enough to compare the speed of dolt 
with an older much slower libtool in his announcement - and it worked
in convincing many people to use DOLT...

cu
Adrian

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