Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:01:35 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c]) Message-ID: <200103140301.f2E31ad37938@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:12:23 PST." <200103132312.f2DNCNS02417@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Agreed. Anything that gets into the details and the nuts and bolts > > > about how to do something that someone isn't interested in gets this > > > label. Even when working code is posted as a possible direction. > > > > Have you also not noticed that there IS a trend to overengineer everything > > as of late? > > No. But you may have been listening to Linus a but much. 8) The trend I'm specifically referring to is to have new APIs take over certain parts of existing APIs but yet not replace them. Every new "solution" API seems to carry along with it a layer of reproduction of other APIs and this directly as a result of everyone requesting features that just aren't necessary. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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