>From Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > I also think that it's silly to fork over around 10 lines of code (just
>> > guessing).
>>
>> Not fork so much as provide a patch or an alternate distribution.
>
>We can't provide a patch. We're distributing a product for people, not a
>library for programmers (well, okay, that too). We'd have to provide an
>alternative distribution. Which means two downloads for Windows, two
>downloads for Linux .tgz, two rpms, two debs, and two Mac archives
>whenever we get around to supporting Mac again.
>
>This is an awful lot of pain for the package maintainers over 10-20 lines
>of code which a lot of people seem to want anyway.
>

Can't Fred be patched in binary by supplying new .class files of the modified 
.java sources?  That would be a pretty lightweight distribution...

--
Benjamin Coates


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