On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 at 21:49 GMT -0700 (25/06/2002 11:49 where you think I live) "Nick Andriash"=[NA] wrote to TBUDL :
>> Vehemently disagree. The world is not moving to unified messaging. >> The world is moving back to a Unix-like concept of small, tight >> applications doing very specific tasks -- > Not that I am in favour of a TB Newsgroup, but I have to strongly > disagree with your statement. The world is moving away from single use > appliances and going for the 'unified' concept... but without the > bloat... as the wary consumer will not stand for that anymore. IMHO both of you are correct (at least part of it) :-). The word "bloat" sometimes hard to implement, depending the program design though. Some s/w using monolithic design (all in one) but others (said) using modular, each having own benefit. Modular make any piece of s/w can be run in stand alone (and develop by other people) or call each others, as far as you don't care about the GUI, Modular is the best choice (every developer having their taste of GUI). Monolithic in other side have all in one structure, more consistent in GUI or others (shortcut for instance). Which one do you like ? While in linux, I can compile any features as many as I want (more or less), I can even adding any patch from anybody...I can do that because most of them are Open Source, I can change the code and recompile (even sometimes make nice crash or running slow :-)))). Maybe plug-in is the answer for Windows world, but TB! must prepare the Interface for other program (maybe something like SDK or API to call other application and back), assume TB! using "modular" concept otherwise Ritlabs must develop from scratch. -- Best regards, - Syafril - mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flying with The Bat! 1.60q under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
