Re: Improving Gnus speed

[Eden Cardim <edencardim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> "Francis" == Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

Francis> Out off topic: Why does Gnus development use a mailing list ? That's
Francis> pretty paradoxical, isn't it ?

As a beginning gnus user, I wouldn't be able to reply as to why it
happens for gnus in particular, but I thought it would be worth the
mention that this "paradox" actually makes sense in most cases. It's
called bootstrapping, the reasoning behind it is that the building of a
new tool is often motivated by limitations in all the alternative tools,
which implies that the best tool for the development project is the very
thing you're developing. Another benefit is that the development effort
also doubles up as a sort of continuous alpha test. There are quite a
few notable cases:

- most linux kernel development happens on a running linux kernel
- gcc is (in most cases) compiled by gcc
- git development uses git for revision control
- subversion too
- perl's build/test process is controlled by a perl script
- trac development uses trac as SCM
- bugzilla too

just my $0.02

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