• notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    That isn’t how it works. They would have to FORK the code and maintain their changes going forward with every update. That is poor software development practices no matter how you look at it.

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      18 hours ago

      I think the Brave browser does it with Chrome. Wouldn’t the source control tool do most of the maintenance?

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        18 hours ago

        Chromium is a well-organized and mature codebase, which makes syncing changes relatively easy (also Brave’s chageset is limited in scope, so less conflicts to worry about). PieFed is neither mature nor well-organized. Maintaining a downstream project from it would be a nightmare.