>Right, and if someone changes the software, that person takes on the
>support nightmare. Dan could quite reasonably say "I will only help
>you if you are using an unpatched qmail."
>
> > Dan doesn't want to be ``faced with a support nightmare---forever'', and
> > I can't say I blame him.
>
>There are many patches available for qmail, and Dan can neither detect
>nor stop people from applying them, yet he does not seem to be living
>a support nightmare.
Russ and all the great qmail supporters/patchers.
Have you ever thought about something like a semi-forked version of qmail?
I'm thinking about something like ezmlm-idx which is probably THE ezmlm
everyone uses these days.
Why can't we make something like this (qmail-whatever)?
This way we can port all the exisiting patches that everyone is applying
these days into one bit patch
and later on supporters can work off this patch to add more feautres?
Applying a lot of patches to qmail these days leads me into reading diffs
manualy and adding them by hand.
Is this idea anything good in your opinion?
Kris
