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by themgt 3629 days ago
It's just kind of crazy to me the amount of DAO-specific lines of code that have been put into apparently Mist and Geth, e.g. just search "DAO" on these links [1], [2]

How many many man hours have been spent on introducing a single DAO-fork feature into the code? They didn't even build it as a generic "community referendum fork" feature just something specific to this situation? They can say "the community decides" but the community didn't decide to dedicate that amount of dev resources to putting a band-aid on a single community member's fuckup. What a mess.

[1] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/1b2941cd56d69...

[2] https://github.com/ethereum/mist/commits/0.8.1