On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:11:48PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:46:58AM -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: > > > Hi Enrico, > > > > > > > I think that more attention should be put in the memory footprint. I > > > > have > > > > the impression that LyX is becoming a bloatware. > > > > > > How so? Are you referring to just the memory imprint or the feature set as > > > well? (Bloatware means many things to different people.) > > > > More or less, I mean what wikipedia [1] has to say on the subject: > > can you be explicit? i have problems to follow what in particular are > you talking about.
I f you go to the bottom of that wikipedia page, you can find something along these lines: Sometimes software becomes bloated because of "creeping featurism" [1], also called bullet-point engineering [2]. One way to reduce that kind of bloat is described by the Unix philosophy: "Write programs that do one thing and do it well". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet-point_engineering That's what I am talking about. -- Enrico
