Hi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:18:15AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > In theory, table-driven code or at least good modularity can be a way > to minimize the damage from changing facts of life on unrelated > aspects of a program's functionality.
yes. In general, I would agree to this, although it seems that such business software seems to attract people who are not educated as developers, and who may not be that much aware of such issues. > In practice, isn't taxbird dead and therefore unlikely to change at > all in the future? I think if we include it in wheezy, we should > include the newest packaged version. Yes. The author works on a successor package that is based on XUL: http://stesie.github.com/geierlein/ and declares on his homepage that taxbird itself is dead. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
