On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Robert Collins wrote: > > Well, when I sat down some years back to do a couple of things with > > dpkg; I found no need to consult change logs to understand the current > > code of the time. Perhaps its quality has massively decreased since; yet > > somehow I doubt that. > > That's certainly good to hear, it means the barrier for new developers is > low, which is quite good. The same would hold for debugging?
I would never say that the barrier for new developers is low. I don't know in which world Robert lives but dpkg is a complex piece of code and you don't understand it in a few minutes. As if everybody were experienced C hackers that have used longjmp() so many times that anything else that comes up can only be easy to understand... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
