samba development
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at samba.org
Thu Aug 17 02:40:08 GMT 2000
> things, you wanted to change. This is not, because I would
> always say "Yes" to everything you say (there are things,
> where we're quite on differente sides.), but because I
> think I understand most of it and I think you're simply
> right.
elrond, i know what you mean. i know exactly which areas and things you
are talking about. fortunately, when i describe to you what the aims are,
you take them into account, and i make sure that what you were aiming for
is incorporated.
[i am thinking specifically of your wish to make all the dce/rpc code
non-Unicode, and the aims were to make an MSDN-like library -
Unicode-based. with wrappers-to-ascii to provide a suitable unix
front-end, we came up with, remember? :)]
that's the way i think these things should be done.
instead, by other people, i have ideas dismissed because they are
considered too much effort for too little return. my complaint with this
is that samba is not a commercial venture: the consideration of "return on
investment" just simply does not apply, and if i want to put the effort
in, and will enjoy it, i will do what the xxxx i damn well please,
regardless of the pseudo-estimates and impositions on me as to what is
considered, by other people, too much effort.
the only possible considerations that i can see are of value are long-term
maintainability, technical merit and that they actually solve the problem
at hand!!
thx elrond.
lukes
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