Sorry to reply to my own message- but I think I should clarify- I'm OK with you telling me to stop bothering you and the list with trivia if I carry on too long. I wasn't threating to stop contributing! I'm having too much fun right now :-)
...jerry On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Jerry Dunmire <je...@dunmire.org> wrote: > Sure- I'm not proposing to do a code review, just fix things as I > notice them and/or the impact my development. I'm bothering you and > the list right now because I'm a newbie and I don't have the > historical back ground (like for xastir_snprintf). At some point I'll > be more comfortable with the code and if that doesn't happen soon > enough it's OK to tell me that I should stop. > > ...jerry > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: >> >>> Great. I'll clean this up in a future patch. >>> >>> The 'static' qualifier does not seem to be used much in this program. >>> Is that just historical, or is there something else (perhaps to make >>> it easier to see the symbols in a debugger)? >> >> Just from my perspective, there's precious little time to get done >> what needs to be done, so coding proceeds at a frantic pace. Errors >> and most warnings from the compiler get fixed, some quick testing >> may reveal bugs that get fixed, then it's committed to CVS. >> Sometimes(?) the users find more bugs and those are fixed, hopefully >> before the developer forgets the section of code he was working on. >> No time/energy is allocated to doing it the "correct" or "more >> correct" way. Make sense? >> >> I think a lot of open-source projects run in a similar manner. >> Adding new features is interesting. Scanning existing code for >> problems is not. Guess what gets done more by volunteer coders? >> >> -- >> Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> >> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> >> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown >> Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. >> The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir-dev mailing list >> Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev >> > _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev