On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:44:36PM +0100, square87 wrote: > 2009/1/6 Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> > > > Well, I've just reverted the change... it's incomplete, the > > fonts, the skin boxes are wrong, the psm is wrong, psm under > > nick option is ignored, etc... and this such a big change > > should be discussed in the mailing list before ever getting > > integrated into core... > > > It's incomplete, no wrong. > Yeah, i should use the ML > np
> > > > > Square, it's not because one or two users say "it should be > > integrated into core" that you have to listen to them, you > > have SVN access, they don't, so it's your responsability to > > use it correctly. > > > I use it correctly, and i committed my changes no because of two users says > to me: do it. > > > > > > If you did some performance improvements on the current CL, > > that's one thing, but rewriting the whole thing is > > completely different. > > This should be disucssed first, that's my opinion. > > And in my opinion, it's useless because if you add > > everything that we currently do, it will become just as slow > > as the current implementation... the newCL implementation > > was very fast, but became slowler as we added more features, > > square, your fastCL implementation will become slow too if > > you add all the features, and as long as it doesn't have all > > the features, then it can't be in the core! > > > I tried to complete it, and it's not slow as the actuall CL. > But i noticed a very big CPU loading :-\ > So it's not good... > humm.. so you mean once the fastCL is more complete, then it becomes just as slow as the current CL ? I think the best way to speed it up is to just have options to disable some options... I also know (and had many confirmations from many users on the forums), that if you use a simple skin, one that doesn't use the background image for the groups, and doesn't use transparency in its images, then you'll get a HUGE performance boost.. > > > > > Also note that a rewrite is always bad, it's always better > > to do some refactoring in order to improve on what we > > already have, if interested, there's a very good article > > about refactorisation/rewriting. > > > yep, i am interested. Can you give me those artcles? > mainly, just google for "refactor vs rewrite", you'll find plenty of articles.. The one that I had to read was this : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html (I was given that link when I also wanted to rewrite something at work, and i was told I should refactor instead) > > > > > And one last thing, I think it's too late for something like > > that, I'd really like to see 0.98 out as soon as possible, > > and this is a huge change to put in there before the > > release, so it's better not to.. you have it as a plugin > > now, so keep it as a plugin for now! > > > I agree with you about amsn 0.98. I didn't know about the release as soos as > possible. > My mistakes have been to not complete it before commit it, but mainly i have > to inform and wait before commit a big change. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > KaKaRoTo > > > > > Square87 > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:44:43PM +0000, Tom Hennigan wrote: > > > Just noticed that the old CL fonts aren't taken into account? > > > (http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1425/picture2yw0.png). Just to make > > > you aware incase it was a mac thing. Let me know if it is, I'll look > > > into it at some point if it is. > > > > > > - Tom > > > > > > squar...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > > > Revision: 10826 > > > > http://amsn.svn.sourceforge.net/amsn/?rev=10826&view=rev > > > > Author: square87 > > > > Date: 2009-01-06 11:37:52 +0000 (Tue, 06 Jan 2009) > > > > > > > > Log Message: > > > > ----------- > > > > delevopment of a fast cl. first release > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
