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I could never justify the time investment to upstream a lot of my python-build-standalone work. I made some attempts. But it always felt like I was swimming against a heavy current…

Some of Apple's code signing is open source (mostly in SecurityFramework). But not enough is open source to be able to build a modern `codesign`. The source you linked is ~10 years…

Note that gon is a glorified front-end for executing processes like `codesign`, `altool`, and even `ditto` for zip file generation. This Rust implementation, by contrast, has all t…

XAR signing is effectively just an RFC 5652 CMS signature plus some minimal data structure manipulation. Code at https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/blob/faa7dfcea5d66bf5... . M…

rcodesign can sign and notarize applications written in any language. From rcodesign's perspective, Rust is an implementation detail of the tool itself.

While this IFUNC feature does exist and it is useful, when I performed binary analysis on every package in Ubuntu in January, I found that only ~11 distinct packages have IFUNCs. I…

The index is a power user feature. Its forced presence in Git effectively constitutes a usability barrier for new users. After all, a VCS is effectively a glorified abstraction for…

I once helped maintain a nearly full featured implementation of make in Python (pymake) that grew out of the Firefox project. As much as I would like to support efforts like this, …

I removed the background image and made the text blacker. Might take a force refresh to pick up the CSS file change. Is it good enough or are further tweaks needed? If more, my web…

Compare https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.0/config.html#file... to https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config.html#file... . In PyOxidizer's case, I wanted to creat…

I converted PyOxidizer's configuration files from TOML to Starlark because I found it effectively impossible to express complex primitives in a static configuration file and the st…

The criticisms about musl's memory allocator being slower than glibc may be true. However, this specific issue can be resolved by telling the Python interpreter to use e.g. jemallo…

C/C++ is a language with limited facilities to ensure correctness at compile time. The languages are riddled with undefined behavior in common features that programmers with multip…

The late start was mostly due to having to retain Python 2.4/2.5 compatibility until May 2015 and it was literally impossible to use some future statements or some Python 3 syntax …

Patches to workaround the issue were just committed. Those patches were tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549010 . At the time of writing this comment, that …

Obviously not applicable to Linux since it is hosted on Git, but Mercurial has this "clone bundles" feature built in. If you e.g. `hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central` …

I'm totally OK with Python's threading choice of saying only 1 Python thread may execute Python code at any time. This is a totally reasonable choice and avoids a lot of complexity…