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Make it a library?

Make it a library?

Posted Apr 4, 2012 14:58 UTC (Wed) by RCL (guest, #63264)
In reply to: Make it a library? by Pc5Y9sbv
Parent article: Udev and systemd to merge

When you start to reuse code it becomes unmaintainable. Everyone is afraid of touching the common part lest they break some functionality they cannot test for themselves (or even know about).

So unless the common part is really simple and plain and will *never* need any refactor/improvement, don't do that. The world is built upon redundancy, which helps parallelization of efforts.


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