On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:50 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote:
A heavily patched programme is a messy compromise for system options which could be handled by run-time configuration options ?
But without patches, you're either bound to an old version, or have to track upstream exactly. What if you don't want to?
So, if I understand the situation, patches create flexibility in run-time options not available in run-time configuration files ?
Paul.