Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote:
There seems to be a lot of code used/usable by both interfaces.
Maintenance should be a lot easier if the common stuff is not
duplicated,
This idea was proven wrong in the history of LCL-Gtk2. And not just
wrong, it has costed us hundreds of hours of development.
Because of that we don't have common code between LCL-Win32 and
LCL-WinCE and it was a great idea. I am pretty sure that huges amounts
of LCL-Win32 changes would break LCL-WinCE and just fill my bug
tracker with regressions. While if people want fixes from Win32 I can
just copy them and test.
While implementing graphics I was not so sure the dual code base of
win32-winCE was such good idea. I had to code it twice, with a result
that my code slightly differs on both. Since while I was testing on one,
I fixed some bugs, which also had to be applied to the other. In this
process I forgot a few in both codebases.
I do agree that sharing has its issues, but I hope you will understand
that splitting similar code also has issues. Both are not ideal.
Marc
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