On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 18:49 -0500, Michael Bayer wrote: > On Dec 12, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: > > > I've seen two people > > add code to the same package that does the same thing because nobody > > really knows how it works anymore. > > This reads like the argument people make for off-the-shelf/out-of-the-box, > rather than against it. Unless you mean, they had to write a bunch of > spaghetti to work around the limitations of the package.
It just means that the code is so convoluted, or the existing maintainer base so far removed from an older one, or the codebase so poorly documented that newer people don't even understand the intent of the code anymore, and can't even recognize that they're doing something that has already been done. - C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
