On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Roland Zwaga <rol...@stackandheap.com>wrote:
> > > > Again, I didn't say that either sources or other parts of the SDK are > > useless, what I say is that people don't use them quite often. Some - > never > > use them. This is a common sense, that if a feature is not mandatory - > make > > it explicitly optional... It doesn't matter how good uses you can find > for > > the things in the SDK. The goal _is not_ to provide users with as much > > stuff as you can. The purpose is to give them what they really need and > be > > flexible about giving per request. > > > While I agree with your point about making a seldom-used feature optional, > it might > also be true that basing the assumption that these features are seldom used > on a poll > that was conducted among FlashDevelop users might skew this assumption > towards > only a certain part of the flash/flex developer community. > What I mean is, it might be true that these features are seldom used > amongst FlashDevelop > users, it might not be representative for users of FDT, IDEA, FlashBuilder, > etc. > I don't claim to know the preferences of these user groups, but they might > be vastly different from > the preferences of the FlashDevelop community. > Having said that, I do feel you have a point about making certain parts of > the SDK optional, > I don't think flexibility is a bad thing, so I think you raise a valid > point that warrants a healthy > discussion :) > > cheers, > > Roland > +1 to this summary. -omar
