On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 05:35:25AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> * On Thu, May 27 2010, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > This whole thing makes me wonder, why do *you* really contribute to CPAN?
> So that people other-than-me can fix my apps before I even know they're
> broken.
> The real question is "why do you fix other people's code?"

Because it's often easier than rolling my own.  I send the fix to the
author so I don't have to remember to re-apply (and perhaps edit to make
it apply) my patch when I install a later version of his code.

-- 
David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing

    fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah;
    fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

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