Re: packages with binaries

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: That is a bit harsh! As a theorist of software, I always make a crucial distinction between internal structure and external functionality. VM may not have the world's most beautiful code, but it definitely wins in its functionality. Some other tools that I won't name have pretty-looking code, but their usability is, well..., bletcherous. Moreover, I think VM has a certain logical coherence which makes it quite solid. Despite the fact it is going through a second maintainer now, almost nothing we do breaks it. That is quite phenomenal if you ask me. In the last couple of years, we added IMAP support (which was already there, but sort of half-done) and external messages (which was a fundamental architectural extension), without getting into a single major issue. Nobody lost an email message. Nobody had a mail folder corrupted. VM just continues to run without batting an eye lid. This is a far cry from what we read on our competitors' newsgroups. The beauty of code isn't skin-deep. It is in the logical soundness of the architecture which can stand the stresses of the times. VM definitely has it, and certainly wins my admiration for it. Cheers, Uday _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta