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"If you have TeXLive 2024 (or later), then Moloch is already included in the distribution and you don’t have to do anything to install it."


"almost nobody"


"trunk" would have at least matched the notion of "branches"


Huh. I always visualized "trunk" as some kind of chest where all the code was stored. Somehow it never occurred to me to think about trees. What a weird feeling.


i hope you don't get your source code tree (on disk) confused with the tree of branches in the repository then...


i knew it wasn't just me!


Interesting perspective


Following the logic of the master rename though, should we even then use the terms “tree” or “branch”, since so many people were murdered by being hanged from them in lynchings?


Since Torvalds hated CVS and Subversion with a passion, "trunk" was out of the question I guess.


extreme terminology prejudice


oh, don't worry, somebody will be offended by this as well - "trunk" as a sexual slang term refers to a woman's buttocks.


What about "boot", to be more international?


trunk as in tree, not car. Cars don't have branches.


To go with the way the world is going, maybe "boot" and "licks" instead of "trunk" and "branches"? =)


Source code to some masterpieces of 1990s software (such as Impression for RISC OS) were left to rot on the hard disk of a machine in the basement of the country mansion where they were created.


it makes sense when you realise they are actually machines disguised as buildings



this date obsession is moronic, especially when we are talking about technology over forty years old. Next time you are tempted to spam the date, wait, and see if conversation still happens without your vital input.

There are many articles missing a (2025) addition, so get to work!


"Complaining about full IDEs slowness is fully irrelevant here. Full IDEs provide an end to end experience in implementing a project."

So? No excuse for a poor interactive experience.


698 pages in that .pdf and you summed it up perfectly


this has been posted three times (I was the last and it got flagged as "dupe") - the moderators are not allowing fair discussion here.

this site is policed by vigilante bot-runners who seem to farm karma by flagging "dupe" everywhere but saying or contributing nothing


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