On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:23:17 +0100 (CET) [email protected] wrote: >[...] > > Without the nogui widgetset there would be no lazbuild, because the > > task would be so big, that no one would have started it. > > This is IMHO a fallacy. > > As we say in dutch: Soft doctors make stinking wounds. > > If you would have bitten the bullet from Day 1, you would not be in the > situation where you are now.
True. I didn't need it and I hardly use lazbuild, so I would spend the 2 weeks (probably more) on other things. There would be no lazbuild. > It will linger forever, exactly because it is no longer a priority. Then why there is progress? The progress is slow, but the task gets smaller, not bigger, even though the project is growing. > If there was no nogui, you would now have a good design. The nogui widgetset came after lazbuild. The nogui widgetset simply avoids linking to a widgetset and reduces the binary size. Absent of the nogui widgetset does not prevent people from making a GUI app a command line tool. It does not make it easier and thus I doubt that it encourages users to do that. > Yes, it would have been a painful 2 weeks or even a month. > But the end result would be better. The end result would be that there would be no lazbuild. Better a soft doctor than no doctor. > You need Marco van de Voort on your team; He's a proponent of radical > changes for the good. One day you would simply find yourself with a complete > new API ;-) ;) >[...] Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
