In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401211632020.31023-100000_at_pancho>, Mark Linimon writ es: >> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401211259420.28437-100000_at_pancho>, Mark Linimon writ >> es: >> >phk: >> > >> >> Considering how much harder it is to get rid of code than to add >> >> it to our repository, a metric based purely on "lines added" would >> >> be very misleading. >> > >> >IMHO this post is completely gratuitous. >> >> And is that because it was not to your liking, because it was written >> by me or because it just happened to be occupying electrons you had >> other plans for ? > >Because it is a sideway reference to a bikeshed about removing one of >your recent changes, IMHO. Ahh, then you are just wrong. This was not a reference to any particular incident, but rather destillation of my wisdom on this point over ten years of effort. If you doubt me, try for instance to find out what happened to NETCCITT and the X.25 code in FreeBSD many years ago. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 21:30:06 UTC
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