From kopete-devel Mon Sep 01 08:41:11 2003 From: Thomas Zander Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:41:11 +0000 To: kopete-devel Subject: [Kopete-devel] Re: Maintaining BC X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kopete-devel&m=106240582918093 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Olivier, > > The difficult part, that takes time, tht, experience and again TIME is > > getting an API to stabilize and mature. > > The api didn't realy change since the kopeteaccount port. > and i see that it is almost perfect. > preuve: almost no changes since there That statement misses the point entirely; creating a library that is BC is not hard, and I really think you are confusing the magic BC with the concepts of a stable API. If you have a stable API, BC will follow automatically. Creating a library that has an API which is stable means that the methods and the patterns inhathe design are sane and are stable. If you look at Qt1 and the move to Qt2 you will notice a huge change in API. The reason for that to happen is simple; the creators found that the library used the wrong design patterns in various places. This is not obvious and can only be found when you have extensive experience in the field; declaring a young API stable will mean you don't have that experience yet, and you have very subtle (but very big) problems in them. > libkopete is realy stable. there are not real bug against libkopete, now > that > all the UI is go away outside libkopete. I'm pretty sure Martijn did not want to point to bugs in the current API, but he wanted to point to unfinished design. The difference is that until you finished coding the full design, AND feel happy with it, its impossible to say how many problems reside in the library. > > Go over each method. Look at it. > > Compare it with API docs. Apply unit tests on them. Check code for awkward > > algorithms that are in need of refactoring, etc. > > this has already been done. > our apidoc make sence now. I have extensive experience with creating libraries and have been coding for 15 years now; I hope you won't take it personally but simply take my word for it when I say that your conclusion is just naive, you are looking at the wrong things here. Its the design, not the API that makes the library. 6 to 9 months may seem a long time, but in the end you will be glad you took them. Compare it to running downhill too fast, it WILL make you fall on your face pretty darn hard. So better slow down a bit, there is life after 3.2 :) - -- Thomas Zander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UwYrCojCW6H2z/QRApehAKCZN2mlBoM0C/Zgi59v/BJaJwXc5ACg4FKA PSHBIM0h07/OTq5zbg89+nc= =N9xr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kopete-devel mailing list Kopete-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel