Re: API Fragmentation and Cleanup
- From: Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in>
- To: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu gnu org>
- Cc: Kenny Graunke <kenny whitecape org>, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: API Fragmentation and Cleanup
- Date: 28 Apr 2001 14:29:44 +0530
Hi Mathieu,
How have you been doing after GUADEC ?
On 27 Apr 2001 23:19:40 +0000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 3) the most complicated solution: WRITE GREAT DOCUMENTATION.
> This includes in the order of most important to least important:
>
> - overall architectural introduction to the Gnome development
> platform.
> - overall architectural introduction to major parts of the
> development platforms. This includes a quick tour of the code with
> pointers to important source files.
> - pointers to great API documentation.
Precisely what I think too. What GNOME needs really is this
alongwith an effort to clean-up as much of the APIs in whatever
reasonable time frame we find suitable.
Kenny, remember that we do understand and acknowledge the need for
cleaning up and getting rid of duplication etc etc. I think the main
reason for all this was the rapid development of GNOME (especially
Bonobo and stuff) which now surely deprecate stuff in gnome-libs (am
I right here ?)
At GUADEC this year, I remember Michael, Havoc and everybody
discussing how they would port all apps to the 2.0 platform after it
becomes stable (stable Bonobo, GTK+ 2.0 etc) and in this process, if
we can take a good look at cleaning up the stuff too, it would be
great. And while we do this, I think we should do what Mathieu
suggests : write all the above for the GNOME 2.0 platform and keep
any old stuff only for compatibility and document it separately.
How does this sound ?
> What I just described is basically a redesign of the Gnome developer
> documentation ? volunteers ? I volunteer myself to hack an outline of it
Count me in any day of the year ! This is certainly something I am
willing to take on and help with.
Let's work it out, people.
Regards,
Ravi
--
"If you're smart, you'll be humble. There always is somebody
who hasn't read a book and knows twice as much as you do."
-- David Duchonvy in Readers' Digest
Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in>
<http://www.iitm.ac.in/~ravi>
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