Re: qmail Patch Repository

[Fabio Busatto <fabio.busatto@sikurezza.org>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:53:40AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Note that scattering tons of preprocessor conditionals through djb's code is
> going to make it *less* readable and significantly increase the chances of
> introducing bugs, possibly including security holes.

This is why I say that the code should not be intrusive.
In my idea, additional features are implemented in their own program functions,
sorrounded by #ifdef, and not more than the function calling should happen in
the original djb code.
I see the bug introduction as a real problem, and this is why I started the
iloveqmail project: to avoid bugs introduced by collating various patches 
together.
Unfortunately the hooks in the original code will overlap, but there is no way 
to
avoid it.

Fabio