You misunderstood me. I was pointing out that under the current system every new release will break themes. I was not advocating for a halt of development.
On 11/13/05, gpshewan <gpsnospam at gmail.com> wrote: > > Steady Dick, > > Everybody is entitled to an opinion. > > Micha said, > > > There is also a huge danger here, which we have already seen, > > namely that either development of Typo must cease, or else every > > new version will, possibly majorly, break existing themes ... What > > we need is a theme abstraction layer, the interface to which will > > stay constant, at least amongst major versions. Such a change would > > of course require huge changes to the codebase. But if we want typo > > to continue to grow and flourish with themes, it's a step that much > > be taken. > > What did I misunderstand? Seems a suggestion to halt Typo > development to me. > > The theme competition is a great idea, but if further development > causes headaches for designers then some people (and I put my hand up > for this) just don't care and would rather see improvements in code - > whether that touches theme aspects or not. If it needs a release > then there SHOULD be a release. How well a blogging engine is put > together and runs is more important to me than how pretty the themes > are for it. > > Is that clear enough? > > On 13 Nov 2005, at 16:17, Dick Davies wrote: > > > On 13/11/05, gpshewan <gpsnospam at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Cease Typo development for themes? Ridiculous. Let me think ... > > > > Good idea. It might be worth doing that before posting, so you can > > address > > what was said rather than what you think you read. > > > > No-one suggested that typo development should be halted, just that > > it might > > not be such a good idea to break theme compatibility in the middle of > > a theme contest. > > > > We're not talking about hamstringing anyone or holding up > > development - > > that's what trunk is for. We're talking about *releases*. > > And the security/bugfix backport issue is irrelevant - none of the > > bugfixes I saw had anything to do with the theme directory. > > > > On the other hand: > > > > * it was a 2.5 -> 2.6 version bump > > * it was mentioned by Scott on the download page, including a > > workaround > > * UI (especially when its css related) is a bugger to unit test > > > > > > -- > > Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns > > http://number9.hellooperator.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Typo-list mailing list > > Typo-list at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > Typo-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > -- Micah Wylde AccordionSoftware -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/typo-list/attachments/20051113/4cdec983/attachment.htm
