On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:11:38PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > Fuck that for a joke. > I've had enough of chasing source code, finding it needs n modules from n > other websites, then discovering that several of these n modules each need > another m modules from other sites, trying to compile the jumbled mess, > finding it won't compile and work properly because it was a shoddy port from > Linux, or the msvc project files are out of date, or versions mis-match, and > finding myself up to my eyeballs in a shit job porting/debugging zillions of > lines of other people's code, and bloating the shit out of my app and > creating maintenance nightmares along the way.
This is precisely the reason for my unpopular recommendation that we avoid external dependencies where possible. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010618/17c68897/attachment.pgp>
