On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 03:23:53PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
>
> > > I also think that it's silly to fork over around 10 lines of code (just
> > > guessing).
> >
> > Not fork so much as provide a patch or an alternate distribution.
>
> We can't provide a patch. We're distributing a product for people, not a
> library for programmers (well, okay, that too). We'd have to provide an
> alternative distribution. Which means two downloads for Windows, two
> downloads for Linux .tgz, two rpms, two debs, and two Mac archives
> whenever we get around to supporting Mac again.
>
> This is an awful lot of pain for the package maintainers over 10-20 lines
> of code which a lot of people seem to want anyway.
>
No its really not. This is not a mainline feature. Its 10-20 lines now,
but "Freenet for the Paranoid" (Which I'm not against, mind you) won't
always be 10-20 lines different from mainline Freenet.
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