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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 0/3] Fix #1505 and some double quotation is


From: felix . winkelmann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 0/3] Fix #1505 and some double quotation issues after #1515
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:24:26 +0200

> By relocation I mean when a program is deployed into a package
> repository or otherwise distributed to users. At that point, the paths
> are no longer helpful since those directories won't exist. The full
> paths also leak information about the build environment, which is part
> of the issue with reproducible builds: it makes the outputs sensitive to
> where they were compiled, not just in trace buffers but in the C output
> too (e.g in file headers) It's similar to the reason we removed dates
> from the header comments in 579a9d1e.
>

Ok, understood. I personally don't care much about these reasons, but if
everybody thinks that this is how it should be, then it probably must, but it's
a pity that apparently ease of development collides with what is considered
established software engineering practices <grumblegrumble>

felix




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