Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Tuesday 07 April 2009: >> I hope many people understands what Melchior said on the property >> system. > > They don't. They are already drooling over the awaited shader > changes. They fell for the argument that this change is in any > way required/desirable, and they give a damn about the cleanliness, > universality and power of the architecture. Prettiness does now > have top priority, while a strong foundation was moved down the > list. This will bite you all in the butt later on, but you were > warned! :-P I do care deeply about cleanliness, universality and architecture too, as you well know. Prettiness too. >> His "going home" thing didn't mean that he just wants to hide >> away unless his opinion is accepted, but he wanted to say the proposed >> vector format is that bad in terms of software architecture. > > My announcement to leave was in response to Curt's "green light" > and vote, to his opinion that the arguments against the change > weren't strong enough. Had I assumed that this isn't decided yet, > then I would neither have made the announcement, nor given up. But > actually, I'm convinced that this *is* decided. FlightGear's > architecture will be sacrificed to Tim's dislike of the verbosity > of XML (a format that was chosen on purpose). Tons of code will > be added everywhere to make the change kind-of work out. You'll > never see any advantages, but some things will stop working. > > But then again: what do I lose? I will continue using fgfs, and > I will continue hacking my private copy of fgfs. I'll just not > commit any code to FlightGearTNG. I'll just be one of the bo105 > developers (together with Maik). It's not so much a sad time for > me, but mainly for FlightGear. Is it fair to say that you never wanted a discussion, but instead wanted to assemble people to yell at me to not make this change?
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