Re: Sourceware mitigating and preventing the next xz-backdoor

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
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On Apr 03 2024, Martin Uecker wrote:

> I ask a very specific question: To what extend is testing 
> for features instead of semantic versions and/or supported
> standards still necessary?  This seems like a problematic approach
> that  may have been necessary decades ago, but it seems it may be
> time to move on.

CMake is doing mostly the same feature tests under the hood.  Because
they are proven convenient and effective.

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