Hi Ingo, At 2025-04-21T03:54:11+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:18:03PM -0500: > > > Would someone like to take up maintainership of it? :) > > I think this question is so outrageously misguided that it matters > to speak up and say how bad this advice really is. > > Normally, even if code is of rather poor quality, i'm all for > cleaning it up and slowly, incrementally, making things better > such that eventually, it will maybe reach tolerable quality > at some point in the future. > > But there is a limit to that. Some time ago, i looked at the > code in contrib/hdtbl. The design, architecture, and implementation > of that code is of extremely bad quality in almost any conceivable > way. It would be so hard to "fix" this mess that i'm very convinced > it would be nothing but a fool's errand not worth the effort.
Some concrete observations supporting your subjective opinions of the code quality would go a long way toward making a persuasive case. Regards, Branden
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