Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2006 10:46 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > Georg Baum wrote: > > But you are. If drastic measures are needed, then I expect that the first > > thing that is forbidden is new stuff that touches the core. And multiple > > views (although I agree it is nice to have) is such stuff. > > That is plain wrong, adjusting this feature will touch very minimally > the core. All the hard work to make this happen is already done.
If that is the case then it is nice. From what I understood it looked like core changes would be needed. > >> We just have to draw a > >> line somewhere, because we feel that something has to change compared to > >> how things are going now. The sooner people use their energy on fixing > >> things, the sooner new features can come in again. > > > > If you look what I did during the last months you will see that most of it > > was bug fixing. Now I know that this was wrong and I should have done some > > other stuff instead. > > And I've done that also: I have sanitized a number of things: the > BufferView, the metrics etc. Multiple-View is just a nice side effect. > Code cleaning _is_ bug fixing. Staying with complicated code is the very > reason for hidden and unfixable bugs. I agree, but that does not contradict with what I wrote: Cleanups like this will inevitably create bugs. Temporarily we will have more bugs. Only after the new bugs are found and fixed we will have a much better result. > You are really unfair to me Georg. Please don't understand me wrong, I don't want to be unfair to anybody. I completely agree that this cleanup is useful. Otherwise I would not have helped you with it. Georg
