On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:12:08 +0100, Olaf van der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was just wondering, why is Drizzle a MySQL fork instead of being > written from scratch?
complete rewrites of non-trivial applications take somewhere between 5 and 10 years to reach maturity. Examples: Mozilla, NT replacing DOS/Win, the (never eventuated) Copland replacement for classic MacOS, MacOS -> MacOSX... Although refactoring and rethinking takes *MUCH* less time: Mozilla -> Firefox, WebKit -> Chromium. -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : drizzle-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
