"Racer X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>so we can all see the huge number of patches that are listed on
>www.qmail.org, and i'd be willing to bet that anyone who has used qmail for
>more than a day or so has had to use at least one of those patches.
You'd lose. I've used qmail heavily for three years and I don't use
any patches anywhere.
>i'm not going to attempt to say which patches "should" be folded into the
>main distribution, nor if any patches should be folded in at all (or,
>because of the possibility of licensing on some patches, whether they even
>CAN be). i am, however, curious as to how djb views these patches, and
>whether any of them will be integrated into the main distribution anytime
>soon.
He thinks most are either unnecessary or bad. I wouldn't expect many
of them to be integrated.
>it might be interesting if people had a way to rate the usefulness of
>various patches, both for general usefulness and how well the patch
>integrates into qmail (that is, whether it should really be a patch or a
>separate program).
It would be interesting to know who's using which patches and why. One
of Dan's main objections to patches is that they make it hard for him
to tell what really needs to be changed in qmail. If one has problem X
with qmail, and there's a patch that fixes problem X on www.qmail.org,
most people just install the patch and never complain to Dan.
-Dave
