Posted by My Pet Programmer on 12/26/07 07:32

jcoder said:
> starting from scratch..perhaps for better control. easy to maintain.

Adding to that:
- less links in the chain of possible breakpoints (subitem of both above)
- syntactic choice in naming
- performance tuning to your own specifications, rather than those of
an unknown entity.
- configuration issues
- unintended consequences - without reading through every single line
of code in the open source code, you can't know what it does to session,
other parts of your code/objects, or how it handles SQL queries/Ajax
calls, etc.
- lack of bloat - You can spend a lot of time trimming down someone
else's code for your own ends and removing extraneous bits (which may or
may not break it), or write your own.

IMHO, of course.
~A!



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