2009/4/6 Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> > <quote who="Daniel Pittman"> > > > I am curious about the "how to bring AppFolders..." part of your > > comment, though: as far as I can tell, with the exception of the Rox > > stuff[1] and the GNUStep people[2] no only really cares ... and those > > two are pretty much a niche market... > > There were heaps of projects playing with the idea a few years ago, one of > thre notably offensive ones being autopackage. OLPC ".xo" packages are > essentially appfolders, too. > > > (Plus, how hard is it, seriously? Five lines of code?) > > Every time you're tempted to say that, hold it in and realise you probably > haven't thought about it very much. It's like when clients say, "it should > be easy to..." and suggest something that would require major architectural > changes to your product... > > I sometimes think the converse can also be true at times - speaking from very modest experience. In the first instance, the client/boss asks offhandedly: "Can you make this small change?" and it ends up being a rewrite of your life's work or you end up founding a new branch of computer science in your basement in the wee hours of the morning just to solve part of the problem (I kid!). Then they frown and get all tentative and worried and ask: "Can you do this? Is it difficult?" for something that ends up being a one-liner in a template somewhere. =]
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