Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:18 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:

> 
> The unfortunate thing about such commodity issues is, some people  
> built up a somewhat unfriendly attitude against any code changes at  
> all.

Sometimes there are some good reasons against code changes:

- huge increase in complexity for minimal gain. gcc 4.x may be an
example for this -- for some architectures there was not much gain from
3.x, for microcontrollers there was some regression.

- sometimes the basic design of software is so bad (spagetti code) that
each modification will introduce bugs.

- with changes the code will not work any more with old hardware or
libraries or architectures.

- porting to other languages or hardware can become harder

- licensing may be another issue, BSD/GNU/APACHE...




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