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In his defense though, ImageMagick has been around along time, and is extremely widely used. I do agree with you though, that many people are too quick to grab
by ominous_prime 14y ago
In his defense though, ImageMagick has been around along time, and is extremely widely used. I do agree with you though, that many people are too quick to grab some random OS code and then run into support issues later on.
It always scares me when I'm working on a project that has accumulates a dozen dependencies on various people's github repos, that may or may not actually be maintained or stable.
- randomdata 14y agoI'm not share I really share in those same fears. If the code does what you want of it, you have saved considerable time not having to write it yourself. If it proves to have bugs/compatibility problems in the future, then you can fix those issues, just as you would have to do if you had written it yourself. It is rather unlikely that your attempt at the problem will yield any better results over the long haul, so maintenance is a fact of life either way. If a project is actively maintained by someone else, that is just an extra sweet bonus.
- ominous_prime 14y agoI do agree, but one has to be willing to take on the responsibility of maintaining that code if need be. The offending codebase isn't always vetted in that sense, and it may not be something you want to take over.