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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
July 12, 2012 08:16
Subject:
Re: supporting untarring of extensions (was Re: Detecting duplicateextension directories)
Message ID:
20120712151559.GC9583@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:11:58AM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote:

> A lot of work that gets done on the core these days (especially by
> people new to core development) involves a lot of cargo culting because
> it's not clear whether the way things are done are actually important or
> not, but at least the way things are done do actually work. Reducing the

I'm somewhat suspicious that the "these days" statement was also fairly
true 10 years ago.

Nicholas Clark

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