[ILUG] disturbing fact...

Justin Mason jm at netnoteinc.com
Thu Aug 19 17:34:37 IST 1999


kevin lyda said:

> Justin Mason spoke thusly:
> >valen at tuatha.org said:
> >
> >>  I assume you are not talking about that testament to the pointlessness of
> >> C++ and OpenSourcing a crap product that is Mozilla, yes ?
> >
> >I'd be on that side too -- I really think Mozilla is going to be unusable
> >for at least another year, considering the amount of rewriting they're
> >doing there.
> 
> "they"?  yes.  seems we have another weekend hacking target.

Well another one of the feelings I got when looking at it a while ago was
that it's a *big* software project, with lots of wierd ways of doing
things internally -- so it's not trivial to get down and dirty with the
code without accidentally breaking stuff.

Eh, a bit like the Linux kernel now that I think of it ;)

--j.




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