On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 20:43:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
That's something I never really understood about the Windows /
GUI
world. The backend functionality is already all there, yet for
some
strange reason the application refuses to have the means to
access that
functionality, requiring instead for you to install "plugins".
To me, a
"plugin" should *enhance* functionality by adding what wasn't
there
before, but in this case, it seems to be more about removing
artificial
barriers to reveal what has already been there all along. Same
thing
goes with the iPhone emoji apps, and many other such examples.
As a CLI-only person, I find this really hard to grok.
With the popularity of XML build systems, that shouldn't be that
hard for an IDE to provide you with a GUI to edit the targets and
make complex build processes. I would have expected big IDEs like
Eclipse to have that feature...
