[hylafax-devel] Re: Pep talk

[Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>]

On Monday, Jul 31, 2000, at 2:01:01 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Darren Nickerson wrote:
>> Should I ask the -users readership to hammer on the current CVS and report
>> their findings? How can we attract more developers into the community?

> i get the impression from the way the dev people talk about it (whether or
> not this assumption is correct i don't know) that the code base is rather
> crufty and very hard to make changes to. i don't know much (ok, ok,
> anything 8^) ) about C++ but i also get the impression that it was written
> when some of the language features had not yet been standardised and as
> such, there are many kludges and hacks. (no offense intended to original
> coders in any way).

> maybe a way to attract more developers would be to make a final release
> (4.1?) and then re-design and re-write from the ground up?

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

I've only skimmed the source.  But even if it's crufty, it's frebangous
(that's the one that comes after humongous and jegundous.  It's about
a billion and 6 lines of code, and from what I can determine, in most
cases, with most modems and most remotes, with the current round of
patches, it works pretty decently.  I know I've got a couple of
installations set up on the 4.1beta1 RPM, and I've had very little
trouble with them.

There are tricks, things that aren't yet integrated for release, but
they're simple tricks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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