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Such structures can be hard to document with both clarity and brevity. Take a look at how Wietse Venema describes the elements of Postfix, for a nuanced master
by inopinatus 10y ago
Such structures can be hard to document with both clarity and brevity. Take a look at how Wietse Venema describes the elements of Postfix, for a nuanced masterclass in the art. http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html
- tptacek 10y agoBoth the architecture and the approach to documenting it were pioneered by Bernstein's qmail, which is the first Unix program of comparable ambition to be structured in this way --- it's crazy to think that there was a time when this implementation strategy was groundbreaking, but, it was. http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures.html http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures.html (Fun fact: Venema and Bernstein had a long-running feud, and Postfix exists pretty much entirely because Venema appreciated qmail's architecture but couldn't stomach working with anything Bernstein produced.)