If this was the entire reason they shouldn't have botched the verbatim option as well.
My guess is incompetence or arrogance or something.
I don't mean incompetence as dumb and I'm not saying I'm smarter, but clearly something is missing that the previous maintainers had.
My best guess is they threw out a bunch of integration tests somewhere around 2006 and never recovered ;-)
If this was the entire reason they shouldn't have botched the verbatim option as well.
My guess is incompetence or arrogance or something.
I don't mean incompetence as dumb and I'm not saying I'm smarter, but clearly something is missing that the previous maintainers had.
My best guess is they threw out a bunch of integration tests somewhere around 2006 and never recovered ;-)