As I read your reply, I somehow remember the saying of Ben Franklin from his Wit and Wisdom, "Quarrels would be neither bitter nor long, if on one side -only-, lay the wrong".
This is because, yes, Shane did not need to be rude. But even after having defended Dianne's answer in another post, I now feel the need to point out how her answer was not an example of sterling politeness, either. Even though she was 100% correct to warn against hard coding package names. In your own words, "none of the backlash would have happened" if Dianne has not been, true to style, so extremely curt, writing just like so many highly accomplished technical people who get everything technically correct, but everything that is not technical not correct: ( One should expect a backlash when two out of three sentences read like an impatient mother scolding a child, starting out with such an abrupt imperative, "Don't". Nor is it often considered helpful to say "Don't do A" without proposing an -alternative- to A. Speaking of alternatives, it surprises me no one has noticed yet: Dianne's prohibition was not on using package names, but on using HARD-CODED package names. Why has no one mentioned alternatives? Put the package name in a configuration file somewhere, or (even more extreme, in my opinion), pull it down from a server, so that it can be changed when the package name changes, without having to download a new APK. Surely Shane can get the client to accept that. On Feb 28, 3:03 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > None of that matters... It's just a simple matter of etiquette. When asking > for help you don't have to be rude if you don't like the answer. And if you > feel it doesn't apply then great... don't apply it! > > The OP could just as easily have said "Thanks for the advice Dianne, but in > my case this doesn't apply because of X, Y, and Z." and then none of the > backlash would have happened > > No reason whatsoever to cop an attitude... > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:54 PM, rich friedel <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > You're right. Mr. Edo didn't finish, so let me... > > > ...wouldn't be the super awesome mobile framework that we enjoy and love! > > On Feb 28, 2011 5:49 PM, "Greg Donald" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
