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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KSContext
From:       Inge Wallin <inge () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2005-03-21 8:06:34
Message-ID: 200503210906.36005.inge () lysator ! liu ! se
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On Monday 21 March 2005 08.53, Tomas Mecir wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:51:09 +0100, Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org> wrote:
> > > Impossible. All 200+ functions are still using koscript heavily -
> > > these need to get converted to KSpreadValue and stuff.
> >
> > That's possible, wait until I create the patch. I designed the formula
> > engine, so I know what I said :-P
>
> Hmmm... Now you've aroused my interest :) Honestly, I cannot imagine
> how would this be possible - I mean, I've already seen the current
> implementation, and I kinda doubt that there's any approach other than
> manually removing all the parameter type checkings and whatnot, then
> converting the rest to KSpreadValue-based stuff - but feel free to
> prove me wrong ;)
> Oh, and the most obvious approach, ie. creating a koscript-compat
> layer and letting the functions operate on top of that, sounds too
> much like a dirty hack to me, so I hope that this is not what you
> meant ;)

Why not let Ariya work on a branch until he's ready?  Then, if it is finished 
soon enough, you can make a review and say go or no go.

The only downside to this is that we will lose him for bug fixes almost the 
entire period until release.

 -Inge


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Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:               |
                          |      "After three days without programming,     |
inge@lysator.liu.se       |       life becomes meaningless."                |
                          | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.         |
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