The blog mentions the installer is a “start over” from the Ubiquity installer, which is now too old, and that they’re not making use of other contemporary insta

The blog mentions the installer is a “start over” from the Ubiquity installer, which is now too old, and that they’re not making use of other contemporary installers. Is this a rewrite from scratch mistake? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... In my world, there’s been a software package that has been trapped in a rewrite for 11 years. They’ve added many features over the years but still haven’t reproduced the original functionality of the older version. That version was in development for 15 years. The only code shared between the 2 is the code that was not developed in house. It’s made my want to run screaming out of the room whenever I hear the words complete rewrite. We now have one application that does some things well and another that does other things. Investing the same energy in the original could have given us so much more.