Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Do whatever you want, I give up. Guerrilla is not my preferred
form of technical discussion. Implement whatever monstrous thing you
want, I do not care any more. It is just too bad that KISS does not
apply here anymore.
For what it's worth, I feel the same way, and it bothers me rather a
lot. This whole discussion got started when I went to try to fix bugs
that this spaghetti code had generated. And the more I read the code,
the more puzzled I got about why such extensive changes had to be made
and couldn't be confined to some relatively well defined aspect of the
code. And puzzled why the whole implementation was nearly impossible to
understand.
Well, now I know. It's because ONE developer has ONE use case (his own)
that requires it. And it isn't even clear that it does require it! So
the code becomes unmaintainable just to satisfy one stubborn person.
I suppose it's up to other people whether they wish to permit that. But
I will not even try to fix bugs if they have to do with this code.
Except that every bug having anything to do with graphics, bibtex,
inclusion, and external files might have to do with this code, because
it's like an invasive weed, seeping into everything.
rh
