On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:42:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > With every version we have bunch of things not working, openssl > > comes to mind, modules and drivers API changed. So this argument > > do not hold water. > > Well, no. The less complex the software we're maintaining, the fewer > maintenances headaches we'll have over time.
I propose this: No one is allowed to claim that any patch either is or is not a big source of complexity and mainenance headaches unless they've at least actually read the code in the patch. So far, the only people who've actually claimed they've read the patches are the two authors and Zoran. I'm guessing Dossy has read them too but I'm not sure. Did you, Don? I can't seem to checkout the AOLserver head from SourceForge right now, so I haven't applied it against 4.1 in order to read what it really does, but according to wc -l, Vlad's patch is a grand total of 147 lines. You know what? I have a REAL hard time believing that this 147 line patch could possibly be the complexity and maintenance nightmare that you're implying, especially since Vlad claims that it's very very simple. Heck, my little 'ns_addrbyhost -all' patch is 285 lines! Arguments about avoiding kludges and the like are worth hearing, but please, let's not go overboard on the, "Any change at all is potentially destabilising, evil evil evil!" tack. Stephen's patch is larger, at 1573 lines. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- 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.
