Steady Dick, Everybody is entitled to an opinion.
Micha said, > There is also a huge danger here, which we have already seen, > namely that either development of Typo must cease, or else every > new version will, possibly majorly, break existing themes ... What > we need is a theme abstraction layer, the interface to which will > stay constant, at least amongst major versions. Such a change would > of course require huge changes to the codebase. But if we want typo > to continue to grow and flourish with themes, it's a step that much > be taken. What did I misunderstand? Seems a suggestion to halt Typo development to me. The theme competition is a great idea, but if further development causes headaches for designers then some people (and I put my hand up for this) just don't care and would rather see improvements in code - whether that touches theme aspects or not. If it needs a release then there SHOULD be a release. How well a blogging engine is put together and runs is more important to me than how pretty the themes are for it. Is that clear enough? On 13 Nov 2005, at 16:17, Dick Davies wrote: > On 13/11/05, gpshewan <gpsnospam at gmail.com> wrote: >> Cease Typo development for themes? Ridiculous. Let me think ... > > Good idea. It might be worth doing that before posting, so you can > address > what was said rather than what you think you read. > > No-one suggested that typo development should be halted, just that > it might > not be such a good idea to break theme compatibility in the middle of > a theme contest. > > We're not talking about hamstringing anyone or holding up > development - > that's what trunk is for. We're talking about *releases*. > And the security/bugfix backport issue is irrelevant - none of the > bugfixes I saw had anything to do with the theme directory. > > On the other hand: > > * it was a 2.5 -> 2.6 version bump > * it was mentioned by Scott on the download page, including a > workaround > * UI (especially when its css related) is a bugger to unit test > > > -- > Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns > http://number9.hellooperator.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > Typo-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
