Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[David Faure]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 18:14, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> Hi,
> just my thoughts ;)
> 
> What are the benefits of having more than one cd recording app in kde:
> 1. the user has a choise
> 2. a bit competition which will increase development 
> 
> What are the drawbacks:
> 1. Bit bigger packages (what wouldn't be right for distros which split the kde 
> packages in app packages + libs, like debian I think)

2. More work for translators
3. More work for documentation writers
4. More work (often by core developers) to bring the application to the
KDE standard quality - see the recent commits to cdbakeoven.
5. More bug reports ;)
6. Code-wise, same problems as the usual drawbacks of code duplication:
what is fixed somewhere might still be a bug somewhere else.

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