Re: Open Source does mean easily re-compile-able

On 29.12.2024 13:39, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 12/29/2024 4:54 AM, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

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I've written my own newsreader system and while admittedly its command line
only it requires only one 3rd party library which is OpenSSL.

That's a fine property. - Too bad one has to write one's own piece
of software to get a more sensibly defined product.

[ snip explanations of some TB internals ]

Very interesting.

 
Is the whole thing obscene ? Yes. You won't find too many
software creations, this distorted. Still, people are using it.
Most people are not aware what is under the hood. It's
a herd of elephants :-)

You get some impression of what's under the hood if you try to fix
that [supposedly] primitive issue with the Reply-button. But it's
(software design wise) actually even worse than I'd have imagined.

Janis