On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:47 PM, C Anthony Risinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> It just makes life harder for everyone in my mind. Once a single external > modification is done to an automated translation, even if some must be done > manually (more likely scripted), it cannot safely be ran again. we can investigate ways to do that, perhaps with comment-blocks, if and only if funding is received which allows for the necessary full-time focus that would be required. the leo project manages with comment-blocks to do auto-editing of code in one file, so if the leo project can do it, so can we. splitting the files up - badly - and making a dog's dinner out of things by duplicating files and having others that maybe import from some, have the same class name but extended functionality, such that even the lead developer doesn't know what the fuck is going on, is a bad idea. so, chalk that one down to experience: try a different route to achieve the same goal. l.
