Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:51:30 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: truss(1) out of commission Message-ID: <20011204135130.O92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011205064031.O8990-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:43:08AM %2B1100 References: <xzpk7w38bzc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20011205064031.O8990-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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* Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [011204 13:43] wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > > Please only commit working code.
> >
> > Tell that to the author of truss(1) (who also wrote procfs(5) in the
> > first place).
>
> It used to work. Did it not work when it was first committed? Anyway,
> there are many more developers now, so breaking the build or a utility
> wastes more peoples time.
I think what DES is aptly saying is that although it worked, the
way in which it "worked" has caused us a lot problems and it deserves
a good replacement.
Let me also state in the author's defense (Sean i think) that
it's much easier to rewrite something that has already been
written than to be the initial implementor and even though it
looks like it's in for a rewrite one must congratulate him on
a job that has lasted us so long.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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