svn commit: trunk/busybox: coreutils coreutils/libcoreutils include etc...

[Rainer Weikusat]

Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> writes:
> On Friday 09 September 2005 22:58, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Can you honestly say this checkin is an improvement, or just marking
>> territory?  (If the latter, please put a big warning at the top of the file
>> that nobody else is ever to check any changes into this file.)
>
> P.S.  Sorry, I'm overreacting.

Actually, you are not. Each of the points you addressed is valid and
specifically, all the code I yet had the mispleasure to come in
contact with written by Manuel is nearly unbelievably crappy,
especially wrt 'superflous complexity' that arises as a natural side
effect when a wrong conception is pushed to its technical limits, ie
to the point where the code becomes "hard to shrink" because it takes
an extraordinate amount of time to understand what it is doing how in
the first place. But this is to be expected when there is never
anything even resembling a rational discussion about the merits of
some piece of code: It becomes a pure issue of turf and 'the others'
don't act much different than you do.

Socially and technologically, "open source" is a horrid failure (with a
few exception, like the Linux-kernel, for instance). It makes a lot of
sense oeconomically, because while spending a lot of money to have bad
software written is not very sensible, using this bad software for
free instead of developing something (equally bad) from fresh makes
sense.

Sometimes, the world resembles a piece of shit pretty closely.