Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> A few years ago, I would emphatically have agreed with you. Now, > getting those patches to provide services that are now taken for > granted with MTAs to play nice with each other is a serious > undertaking. If Dan (or someone else) was actually maintaining the > project and producing a coherent

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2012 03:16 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> Have you looked at qmail lately? > > What do you mean. Qmail is one of the best mailers out there. You > do need patches and in fact some huge patches bring it up to speed > in one go? > A few years ag

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:18:10PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > Have you looked at qmail lately? Yup. Installed it just a couple weeks ago. Use it every day. Pointed a coverity analysis at it the other week.

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Have you looked at qmail lately? What do you mean. Qmail is one of the best mailers out there. You do need patches and in fact some huge patches bring it up to speed in one go? -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 06:44 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:53:10PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: >> I'd add that djb has started several projects that have been, I >> think, very, very good, but then dropped them. It is ha

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:53:10PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > I'd add that djb has started several projects that have been, I think, > very, very good, but then dropped them. It is harder to justify using > his stuff when development is largely limited to one man's attention span. I really don'

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:53 PM, David Benfell wrote: >> > I'd add that djb has started several projects that have been, I think, > very, very good, but then dropped them. It is harder to justify using > his stuff when development is largely limited to one man's attention span. > To be fair, he d