David Dyer-Bennet writes:
> > I'm not going to do it unless a majority of the authors of patches are
> > willing to repackage them as standalone programs. So if there's a
> > firestorm of protest from those authors, I won't do it.
>
> I think this is a very bad idea. My primary reason is that it's
> easier to apply a patch against updated main code than it is to
> integrate the changes from that updated main code into a standalone
> program.
If Dan was putting out daily versions of qmail, sure. But we've had
qmail-1.03 for several years now.
> Also, some things are much better implemented as a change to
> the existing programs, rather than as an additional layer of
> programs.
Try applying two patches to the same program.
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