Dirk Schoebel wrote:
as long as the
maintainer follows the kernel development things can be left in, if the
maintainer can't follow anymore they are taken out quite fast again. (This
statement mostly counts for parts of the kernel where a choice is possible or
the coding overhead of making such choice possible is quite low.)
This is just not good engineering.
It is axiomatic that it is easy to add code, but difficult to remove
code. It takes -years- to remove code that no one uses. Long after the
maintainer disappears, the users (and bug reports!) remain.
It is also axiomatic that adding code, particularly core code, often
exponentially increases complexity.
Jeff
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