Martin schrieb:
It does still cost time to write up all the info, and guarantees
nothing. While if someone wants to do work on something, there are
much better chances that the work (providing infos/answers) will bear
fruits.
This finally explains the often confuse and inconsistent
implementations, found across the entire LCL :-(
I consider this a sarcasm gone badly wrong.
If those kind of implementation exist (rather than just being perceived
as such by individuals), then for those there are many reasons possible.
Many of which would still apply, even if ass the docs existed.
What makes you thing out of all those reasons, it must be the missing docs?
Documentation readers will easily find what's wrong with an
uncoordinated design, and can point the developers there. Then each
involved developer can study the documentation of the others, instead of
figuring out what the might had in mind when implementing their isolated
parts.
E.g. I'm voting for a layout manager interface since years, derived from
the already existing DockManager interface. But in the meantime many
features have been implemented that make it almost impossible to add
layout managers to the TWinControls. Even docking has been broken, and
the IDE layout management follows another and again different and
incompatible way. The time, spent in such different approaches, could
have been used much better.
DoDi
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