On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 07:36 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: [snip] > > Which is if course a big point if you consider > > programmers can only help in one but not the other. > Hmmm - I wonder whether rewriting an application wouldn't take more time than > doing the usual things in free software: > > 1) Write bug reports. > 2) Provide patches - well a programmer who is skilled enouth to rewrite > a complete application is definitely skilled enouth to learn a quite > common programming language in a shorter time than the rewrite would > take - at least good enouth to provide patches. Then why was aptitude written? Why not send patches against apt-get and dselect? ISTM that the good reason for writing-from-scratch duplicate functionality is if you have a Better Idea (better data structures, better interfaces, extra functionality, etc, etc) that are so fundamental that You Can't Get There From Here by patching existing code. [snip] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy." Jeff Greenfield, CNN political analyst
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