On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:18 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > > The unfortunate thing about such commodity issues is, some people > built up a somewhat unfriendly attitude against any code changes at > all.
Sometimes there are some good reasons against code changes: - huge increase in complexity for minimal gain. gcc 4.x may be an example for this -- for some architectures there was not much gain from 3.x, for microcontrollers there was some regression. - sometimes the basic design of software is so bad (spagetti code) that each modification will introduce bugs. - with changes the code will not work any more with old hardware or libraries or architectures. - porting to other languages or hardware can become harder - licensing may be another issue, BSD/GNU/APACHE... _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user