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ot on March 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google releases snappy, the compression library us...

I wouldn't be surprised if this used to be part of a big internal build system, and they hacked up an autoconf/automake setup for the public release.

lacker on March 23, 2011 [–]

Definitely - this is the case with pretty much every Google component that gets open sourced. The only exceptions are projects like Chromium and Android that were designed from the start to be open-sourced.

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