On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote:
> Regarding CID vs CONTRACTID - still haven't understood why CIDs are > random numbers, instead of human-readable names Someone in 1999 or 2000 thought it was a good idea and set the pattern. And still I find the naming "CID" (class-ID ?) vs "CONTRACTID" quite > confusing. Why not something like "INTERFACEID" or "PROTOCOLID" vs. > It is what it is and no one wants to go through millions of lines of code renaming everything. Just learn it once and move on to things that matter. Doesn't need to be that much. Less than hundred should be sufficient, > and most of them should be orthogonal to the rest. > 100 options is 4950 configurations to test. More often than not things that "should be" independent have subtle unexpected linkages. You can't handwave away the testing through sheer optimism. -Dan Veditz _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
