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Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:26:03 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Firebird/Thunderbird

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In <200309111650.0554864.7@scoug.com>, on 09/11/03
at 04:50 PM, "Kevin L. Hill" said:

>I would like to use the "lean and mean" Firebird rather than the bloated
>and slow Mozilla. I have been skeptical because the Firebird 0.6 zip
>file is 17.1 Megabytes and the Mozilla 1.5b zip file is a whopping 15.1
>Megabytes. So even with fewer "features" Firebird is bigger ? I think
>the programmers are as effective in cutting code as California
>politicians are in cutting spending. :)

While I don't ever expect Firebird or Thunderbird to be lean and mean in
the sense of Lynx, I don't consider it oversized for what it does. It's
easy to tell other programmers to write slim code. It's somewhat harder
to do it when it's your turn at the coding bench.

I'm not sure where you found your 17MB copy of 0.6, but mine is:

8-18-03 17:30 10,703,166 104 MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-os2.zip

>Actually, I guess that since Firebird has more code - - we should expect
>it to have more bugs.

Why? It's all the same code, just the makefiles are different.

Steven

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