[Lazarus] What is the future of NoGUI widget set?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Jan 25 12:28:17 CET 2011


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:23:17AM +0100, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> As we say in dutch: Soft doctors make stinking wounds.
> 
> If you would have bitten the bullet from Day 1, you would not be in the
> situation where you are now. It will linger forever, exactly because it is
> no longer a priority. If there was no nogui, you would now have a good
> design. Yes, it would have been a painful 2 weeks or even a month. 
> But the end result would be better.
> 
> You need Marco van de Voort on your team; He's a proponent of radical
> changes for the good. One day you would simply find yourself with a complete
> new API ;-)

I don't think one case in 13 years proves that :-)

In most cases it was more replacing an evolutionary grown api to something
with some design behind it.  

I usually draw the line when people start to layer new APIs over broken
code.




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