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| author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2016-09-07 00:47:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2016-09-07 00:47:38 +0000 |
| commit | 66c6699142d95cce9e5c9d49e0498161a776cc22 (patch) | |
| tree | df2471c1d549b98b6ca6407df50dfae91d5347dc /HACKING | |
| parent | 932a70dfd2ea3e8ae7eca5fac680c2ad0a17c46d (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-66c6699142d95cce9e5c9d49e0498161a776cc22.tar.gz | |
Hopefully more folks can download and run public-inbox, nowadays.
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@@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ In general, we favor mature and well-tested old things rather than the shiny new. Avoid relying on compiled modules too much. Even if it is Free, -compiled code makes packages more expensive to audit, build, and +compiled code makes packages more expensive to audit, build, distribute and verify. public-inbox itself will only be implemented in scripting languages (currently Perl 5). Performance should be reasonably good for server administrators, too, and we will sacrifice features to achieve predictable performance. +Encouraging folks to self-host will be easier with lower hardware +requirements. See design_www.txt and design_notes.txt in the Documentation/ directory for design decisions made during development. |