On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:31:53PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: > > A bunch of other poeple have started the Herring project (and another > > project which does not officially exist, and shall not be named) to > > make sure that even if dpkg takes it last gasp and doesn't even bother > > writhing anymore, we've got a backup. > > Which IMHO is a waste of effort - surely working on the dpkg bugs is a > better use of time rather than trying to re-write the entire thing? I > reject utterly that the dpkg source tree is unreadable - I'm no god > programmer, and I can understand it. Every software project reaches a point where the effort required to patch it is greater than the effort required to rewrite it. A clean design that incorporates lessons learned over time is better than an ad-hoc collection of patches, IMHO. Mike Stone
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