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On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Jason Azze <ja...@azze.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Eric S. Raymond via devel > <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: >> Here's my big question about the next year of development: should we >> be moving the codebase out of C to Go? > > Would this be a direct translation--warts and all? Do you refactor as > you translate? > > I've worked on infrastructure projects before where the task was to > move a complex service to a greenfield with the mandate "don't change > anything about how the service functions, just move the thing, we'll > optimize later." > > I can testify that the temptation to rebuild things as you go in this > scenario is overwhelming at times. We get into a lot of friendly > arguments about what "warts" to preserve for the sake of being able to > trace breakage to a very limited set of changes. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
