alt Hacker NewsI agree. My point was only that this hole can easily be patched in X as well. So the argument was essentially "we do not bother to patch it with X, so we must rewrite X".
I agree. My point was only that this hole can easily be patched in X as well. So the argument was essentially "we do not bother to patch it with X, so we must rewrite X".
It was my understanding that changing the original codebase to fix it would’ve been involved enough as to warrant a rewrite.