Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:05:03 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internal clock Message-ID: <199704012005.NAA05171@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199704011946.MAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199704011920.MAA04841@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199704011946.MAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > > The sad reality is if these things are not incorporated in -current > > > then they fall by as the original authors move onto other projects. > > > > Then adding the code into the tree is a 'bad thing', since it becomes > > unsupported. If no-one is willing to incorporate/support the code, then > > it shouldn't be incorporated. > > Better that it be lost forever? Yes. > Code shouldn't need a hell of a lot of maintenance, if the interfaces > for plugging the code in are fairly static and well enough designed > that they can remain that way. Yeah, right. If that were the case, you and I wouldn't be paid the big bucks to be software engineers, since any poor schmuck off the street could do our job. Nate
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