Re:Nobody's just reading your code
by jandrese on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:45PM
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Or they look at the tradeoff of:
1. I could dive into the code, find the bug, submit the report and hope the developer accepts the patch. Hopefully this bug isn't there because it is required by some other feature the developer actually cares about.
2. That module wasn't doing that much, I can just redo it by hand and dump the dependency.
3. I could hunt around for a different module that does basically the same thing and use it instead. This might be necessary if the module is doing a lot of work, like an ASN.1 parser or something.
1. I could dive into the code, find the bug, submit the report and hope the developer accepts the patch. Hopefully this bug isn't there because it is required by some other feature the developer actually cares about.
2. That module wasn't doing that much, I can just redo it by hand and dump the dependency.
3. I could hunt around for a different module that does basically the same thing and use it instead. This might be necessary if the module is doing a lot of work, like an ASN.1 parser or something.