On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:29:58PM -0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> For the record: I have authorized _none_ of the third-party patches that
> are available for my software. Most of those patches are garbage.
Get real.
I agree that many patches are useless, and that there's much to much
patching in the qmail world - the best example IMHO is the big-concurrency
patch; maex proved that you gain nothing from absurd high remote concurrency
in ususal environments. But many people install it anyway ("but I run a big
server!". haha.). Same for big-todo which gains nothing on many filesystems
and the most time useless big DNS patch.
But there are useful patches. Stock qmail misses some features needed or
useful in some environments, personally thinking of ISP environments. Having
roaming users SMTP AUTH makes much sense, for example. And Russel's
mxps/qmtp patch for qmail-remote should have been part of qmail in the first
place. The 0.0.0.0 issue does not affect me (running OpenBSD) but many other
people, and should be fixed without patching.
You are forcing people to patch with not releasing an updated qmail.
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