Hello Andy, On 14 Dec 2001 at 04:54:31 you wrote (at least in part):
>> You're getting them quoted, but in separate messages, as it should be. AS> Hm, "as it should be" is pretty subjective. My "should be" is pretty AS> different. Normally this a sure sign for a configurable option. And here I've to jump in. I don't know if I'm one of these 'experts' called. But I do know there is no such options you'd like to use. It would be really hard to handle this and IMNSHO it does not make really much sense. The two times a month an average user could need this (estimated average value) it is not worth the effort to build such a complex building. You I think you will argue with me, this _is_ a complex thing you'd like to see realized. To say something to your last sentence: why the heck everybody brings out this 'configurable option' if there's something that's wanted and it is told that this maybe will not come. Does anybody screaming out this nice phrase about 'configure everything' has have some few thought about what _configuring everything_ means? Not only you have to double or triple the development time for having as much as possible configurable, no ... you also double or triple time for bug finding, human error detecting because everybody has it's own system. Additionally: you can't make configurable everything without loosing function. It is quite _impossible_ to have the same function 'static' and in conjunction with 'configure around 50-100 parameters as you like, all effecting this function'. Everybody that listened in mathematic lessons only 1% of time should know: the more options/parameters the bigger the amount of possible results. We this end we all can see and marvel in dozens of wonderful products from Redmond: They work ... in a way ... and they do only consume some few GigaBytes of diskspace. And that's not only the nice graphics and animations consuming space ... it's the 'configure all ... find nothing a second time after this' mentality this software is written in. I'd like to see TB! staying small. Not in funtion; in size needed on disk. This is only possible if there's a deadline of 'customization'. Well ... I think nobody else is interested, but for the archive I had to write this mail :-) Just for being able to say "I've already written this ages ago!" *ggg* Ciao Pit -- Regards Peter Palmreuther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Bat! v1.54 Beta/15 on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2) If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
