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		robmensching 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Source Maintenance Fee Yep, and now you have about half a million lines of code* to maintain as well. Have fun with it!* * Last count the WiX Toolset had 589,719 loc but 444,936 if you skip comments and whitespace. * This is the point, maintaining successful (and often non-trivial) projects requires a good bit of work.

9cb14c1ec0 6 months ago [–]

You can always just merge in the latest changes from the upstream project with a click or too. No need to maintain it on your own.

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