Initial post about older version with lots of info on interlink here: Interlink gtk2 (email and news client, slim Mozilla Thunderbird fork)
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Can good coding be seen in a universal way?
Sometimes, it can.
For quite some time now I use interlink, the email reader fork of Mozilla Thunderbird.
When creating the newest version module (again with the deactivated add-ons that I not use put into an external module) I compared the resulting files with the older version.
Et voilà what do I see?
The newer version main module is smaller than the older version! What a neat thing, I know the programmers goal is to improve the code, but seldom one can clearly see the result of good coding by a smaller resulting module for the most recent version.
Here are the sizes:
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$ $ type l
l is aliased to `/bin/ls -oa --color=auto --time-style=long-iso'
$ l 007-interlink-52.9.73*|cut -c 19-
211 2020-02-28 22:25 007-interlink-52.9.7354.linux-x86_64_GTK3_rava.md5sum
1433600 2020-02-28 22:18 007-interlink-52.9.7354.linux-x86_64_GTK3_rava_REMOVED-EXTENSIONS-ONLY.xzm
41504768 2020-02-28 22:23 007-interlink-52.9.7354.linux-x86_64_GTK3_rava_ln-interlink-bin.xzm
211 2020-03-28 16:54 007-interlink-52.9.7388.linux-x86_64_GTK3_rava.md5sum
1433600 2020-03-28 16:53 007-interlink-52.9.7388.linux-x86_64_GTK3_rava_REMOVED-EXTENSIONS-ONLY.xzm
40636416 2020-03-28 16:51 007-interlink-52.9.7388.linux-x86_64_GTK3_rava_ln-interlink-bin.xzm
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And yes, it is a total coincidence that the date of the older version is exactly one month older than the most recent one. I downloaded the tar.xz and made the module today since today interlink gave me the info about the new version.
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