Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

> "convention" is not nothing.  There seems to be this presumption that
> the time/cost/effort in learning things like, "in djb builds, 'make
> clean' is spelled 'rm -f `cat TARGETS`'" is zero.  This presumption is
> false.

 Convention also says
 "Installing a package is done via ./configure && make && make install"

 Convention says
 "daemons should auto-background and put their PID in /var/run/something.pid"

 Convention says
 "Programs should open files with fopen() and use stdio for file operations"

 Convention says
 "System V is the way to start services: /etc/init.d/dns start"

 Convention says
 "DNS servers usually are all-in-one, mix cache and server, support
undeployable protocols such as IPv6 and DNSSEC, and are plagued with loads
of bugs"

 Thank God DJB had the brains to question a few conventions.

 (I'm not saying "make clean" is a bad convention. My point is that people
who are interested enough in djbware to package things like djbdns should
pay the time/cost/effort to go a little deeper into the code and understand
how things work and why they are done that way. Most of the time, going
against conventions has been a fully thought design decision.)

-- 
 Laurent