> Laurence Brockman writes:
> > I'm going to jump into the discussion here and ask why we don't do something
> > like perl has done with cpan? They don't call them patches, or upgrades, or
> > anything else. They call them Modules and have a central repository that
> > users can go and search from. I think this would be ideal for qmail.org
> > site...
>
> He's done *just that*. That's what program delivery in a .qmail file
> is for. That's what qmail-getpw is for. That's what users/assign is
> for. That's what qmail-queue is for. Nobody patches the source of
> perl -- they just go to the published APIs and add things. So why are
> we patching qmail instead of writing replacements?
What do you mean by "writing replacements"? That people should write
their own mail servers, rather than try to enhance qmail?
