On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 17:30 +0000, Schaufler, Casey wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > Behalf Of Dominig ar Foll
> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 6:18 AM
> > To: [email protected]; SeungYeup Kim
> > Subject: Re: [Dev] Smack Feature for Vconf
> > 
> > 
> > Le 09/12/2013 02:11, Schaufler, Casey a écrit :
> > >> That means paths decided by vconftool needs to be known (and hard
> > >> coded) by the package maintainer (what if it is changed later ?).
> > > Yes. This is correct. I submit that this is a good thing. Developers who 
> > > don't
> > understand the environment in which they are developing are at a serious
> > disadvantage. It makes it very difficult for them to contribute to the 
> > system
> > beyond the niche they are working on.
> > >
> > >
> > I am afraid that I do not agree with the idea that app developpers should
> > know the abolute Path used by their Apps.
> 
> If they don't know where the files are, how can they check to see if the 
> contents are correct?
> How can they possibly figure out if the file is getting created at all?

You are talking about debugging. That's an activity done by humans, who
can adapt to changing circumstances more or less easily.

What Dominig objects against, and I agree with him there, is embedding
that knowledge into the source code or packaging where it'll be much
harder to change. It goes against the principles of encapsulation and
hiding of implementation details.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.


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