On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:48 AM, David Lonie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Any thoughts or opinions? This would be a large scale change, and I'm
>> not sure what version something like this should be slotted for. But
>> as evidenced by the bug report, we are turning away a lot of potential
>> users with a negative experience and this is a major area that needs
>> improvement.
>>
> We are spinning up our effort on Avogadro 2, and I honestly want to
> focus our effort on that for large scale changes like this. Being able
> to build up a real delta is something Geoff and I sketched out, and I
> think it is the right way to go. I would like to release 1.1 to expose
> much of the new functionality, but I think there are also several
> other issues causing crashes.

Sure, only some of the crashes are related to undo. What other problem
areas have you noticed? I think this is a conversation that is
overdue, and especially if we're really going to get a 1.1 release out
the door, we should begin cleaning these areas up.

> Having a better testing framework, and actually writing tests will
> help us avoid many of these issues.

Agreed!

> Infrastructure is coming online as
> part of our work to facilitate this - I will try to post more about
> the early MolCore work we have been doing that shows off some of this
> infrastructure.

Looking forward to hearing about this. Molcore-devel is rather curious
about it, too ;-)

Dave

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