Am 12.02.2017 um 19:06 schrieb Wietse Venema: > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. > After coming to IBM research in November 1996, I spent most of > December and January making notes on paper. I knew that writing a > mail system was more work than any of my prior projects. > > The oldest tarball, dated 19970220, contains library functions plus > two early versions of the master daemon. There are 8086 lines of > code, 4204 lines after stripping the comments, and the only > documentation was my pile of hand-written notes. > > For comparison, today's Postfix 3.2.0 RC1 release candidate weighs > in at 236533 lines of code, 137257 after stripping comments. The > documentation amounts to 32589 lines of hand-written HTML source, > plus 41878 lines of auto-generated HTML. > > Much of today's effort is not visible as new features (thought there > still are enough to make an upgrade worthwhile), but happens behind > the scenes as improvements to internal code, and updated tests to > ensure that future changes won't inadvertantly break something. > > Wietse >
Happy Birthday Postfix , and thx to Wietse Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG, 80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
