auto-check good API ?

[Eva Brucherseifer]

Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 21:36 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> On Wed 25. of August 2004 21:07, Frans Englich wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 August 2004 18:55, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > I think it would be good to have the content of the slides as a
> > > guideline on developer.kde.org, maybe titled 'Guide for KDE library
> > > APIs'. What do you think?
> > >
> > > (I volunteer to format the slides a bit and commit them, if people
> > > agree)
> > >
> > > Simon
> >
> > No no no. It's not evil enough.
> >
> > 1. Get Matthias drunk. I think he's lurking so you have to be quick!
> > 2. Make him sign some paper(it's ok to help him along the way) stating he
> > will write a HOWTOish paper as present to the KDE community
>
>  If my memory serves me well, Matthias already said right after the API
> talk he'd make some howto out of it, so I'm afraid your evil plan is not
> necessary :).

Yes, he did so. I'd also like to mention the famous refactoring book here: 

Martin Fowler et. al.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
about 42$

It contains a list of examples on bad smelling code and ways to fix the code, 
the focus are applications though. 

Matthias focused on the library issues and discussed them more in depths. So 
imho Matthias howto and the book probably complement each other quite well.

Greetings,
eva

>
> > (assuming a more elaborated thingy would be more informative than the
> > slides)
> >
> > Seriously, perhaps he's interested, and he's the best for the job too --
> > I suggest you ask him.