hughk's Journal: Lost in a maze of twisty little classes, mostly alike

I have been given the task of maintaining a package that is fairly important for my client over the next 6 months. They have known the package will be replaced for the last two years so it is being run in a low-maintenance mode.

The problem is that many of the developers/maintainers have now left and we are left with a mountain of C/C++ code and a few pages of documentation. This is not easy. Design reverse engineering tools are out of scope unless they are free so I just have to fight it.

Luckily, most of the time it works. However, someone always wants just one more little change.