On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:03:06PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Requirements are not Feature Requests. > > Good point. > > Along those lines, where does multiple client support fall? Do we/you > (you the developers, not necessarily you Tom) decide which platforms > to put on the list as requirements, or do we restrict it to a single > platform to get the ball rolling?
Portability needs to be a requirement up front, as it will be a restriction on design choices down the line, e.g. selection of external libraries, language, and UI design (one can encapsulate UI if one works hard enough, and keep platform-specific things where they belong). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
