on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:18:57AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:08:56PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Ron Johnson said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:16:22PM -0500: > > > With tight budgets and tight schedules, I've *never* seen a project > > > rewritten. > > > > Rewriting from scratch is dangerous anyway; you exchange all of the > > bugs you know about for a whole new set of bugs which you haven't > > discovered yet. Better to improve what you've got. This can result in > > a totally different codebase after a while, but at least you have been > > able to test and release along the way. > > Amen, brother. I spend a fair bit of my time in Debian trying to stop > people from rewriting things and getting them to fix existing code > instead. It's an uphill struggle: for some people rewriting from scratch > seems to be much sexier.
Literally, at times. One of Bdale's stories is of a Brazillian project to produce a distro (forget which), where a primary objective was not only "to impress the girls", but was met ;-) _Brazillian_ girls at that. Add that to your ABM arsenal ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/
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