Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Say someone implements a significant new feature in spamassassin to > handle a particularly virulent new kind of spam, and this new feature > doubles the code size of the source. It's probably possible to rip > that new code out of the upstream source and "backport" it into the > stable version -- but I'd argue that the resulting binary is not much > like the original "stable" one.
Programming is not a matter of "ripping out code". Backporting requires actually understanding all the changes, not some kind of mechanical process. Thomas
