Cashew & things

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 26 June 2008, Petri Damstén wrote:
> time. I'm not sure in this case but I think that sometimes there is a place
> for these kind of hacks. 

i once wrote a blog entry and users and features, and how features are like 
crack: until the user gets their hand on the feature, they often don't even 
think they want it. but once you give them a feature, they will claw your eyes 
out to make sure it never goes away.

and so these hacks have a way of sticking around in the code.

and that degrades the maintainability of the code over time (and often impacts 
the user interface, translation and docunentation efforts  ...)

i'm not stubborn for no reason. i'm stubborn because i never want to rewrite 
the desktop shell from scratch again.

i think these kinds of hacks are just fine for downstream; if we were using 
something that was more branching friendly (e.g. git) i'd be very happy with a 
follows-mainline branch that housed all these temporary downstream appropriate 
hacks that uglified the code.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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