Re: [Exim-dev] So young and already dead?

Miles Davis wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:51:39PM -0600, Edgar Lovecraft wrote:
> Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > >
> > > Just wondering why nothing happens here anymore. :-/
> > >
> > well, perhpas to get it going again...
> > Regardless of any previous discussions :)
> > It appears to me that most of the talk on this list have been
> > revolving around the current exim release, is this really what we
> > want? In other words, how about taking this approach, let the current
> > exim 4.xx continue to be developed as it is by Phillip, as he has done
> > in the past. Take the new hardware/software that the University said
> > it would supply and start on the Exim 5.x software release on that,
> > and with multiple developers. Not that 'old' code could not/should
> > not be a part of the development, but it seems to me it would be
> > easier 'to start from scratch' than to move a fully developed project
> > to the herds.
> > Thoughts anyone?
> > --
>
> While doing rewrites is on occasion neccesary, in this case (and most
> others IMHO) starting from scratch would be a major setback. The current
> codebase has been tested by a large community for quite some time, and
> it would be wasteful to throw out that accumulated knowledge.
> Personally, whenever I heard that the next version of Software Project X
> will be a complete rewrite (usually a proudly proclaimed, 'from the
> ground up' redesign), I run away, fast.
>
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You mis-interpret what I meant, but possibly not what I said :P
I did not mean a complete rewrite of the current code base (when there is
no real reason to rewrite everything or anything), just an absolute 'break
point' from how exim has been developed in the past to how it will be
developed in the future, i.e. all exim 4.xx and earlier code was written by
Phillip who soley authorized any included patches and the such.
Does that make any more sense??

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