> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:55:26AM -0400, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > For example, arguments along the lines of: > - The patches will make the code more complicated, uglier, bug prone, > or harder to maintain.
Three of the four points above are a given. 1. The code will be more complicated. 2. More code and new features increase the probability of bugs. 3. Yes, it will be harder to maintain, because the new features will need to be tested for each release. I have no idea if the code's ugly or not. > In short, it makes no sense to argue that, "There is no value to these > patches." We already knows that they DO have value. Every proposed patch has value by your definition, since you argued the proof of value is that someone wrote the code that goes into the patch. This doesn't mean that every patch implements a good idea, though. > Flexibility, power, and options are good. This is commonly known as the MicroSoft definition of software quality. It's all about features, not about the appropriateness of implementing those features in a particular piece of software. > Giving people the option to > code non-HTTP servers in C using AOLserver is GOOD. Why? All I want is a simple, reliable, efficient web server that provides me with a nice DB interface and a built-in interpretive language. Is also good to give people the option to do their word processing in AOLserver? If not, why not, and where's the intrinsic difference in goodness between one case and the other? > If people see > real problems in these patches to do that, yes please, speak up, we > need to hear about it! But the AOLserver project also has a LONG > history of opposing useful, important patches (even bug fixes!) from > outside developers, often for no apparent reason at all, and that sort > of "not invented here" syndrome gets awfully tiresome. Where's the NIH syndrome here? This represents a major change in philosophy, that AOLserver is no longer a webserver but something entirely different. Has nothing to do with who invented the patch. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
