From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 13 19: 3:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5EC37B718; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (lx5ky4@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2E31ad37938; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:01:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200103140301.f2E31ad37938@green.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Smith Cc: Warner Losh , obrien@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , 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]) In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:12:23 PST." <200103132312.f2DNCNS02417@mass.dis.org> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:01:35 -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith 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