a long, slow and extremely boring process

    chouimat's picture
    2007
    5
    Sep

    it took me nearly 2 months to go through 7 years of code.
    and I came to the sad reality that only 5% of it is reusable and interesting
    even the embedded firewall product is not that interesting anymore since it's based
    on an ancient technology (namely freebsd 4.x) so I decided to ditch it too, no more new version
    and no support for it since I don't have the setup for doing it. What I will do is
    to take the knowledge and some of the cool concept I got while designing it and reimplement them
    using something more modern, here my goal is to not let die the best thing (even if sometime it was
    a pain in the ass) I managed to do in the past 7 years.

    my idea is to merge most of the stuff (concepts, ideas etc) from the various branches even those who were basicly
    "let try this to see if it make senses". I love some of those crazy ideas :D