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

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