On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Angus Leeming wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2001 16:43, John Levon wrote:
> > I was going to come out against encoding the different file selection
> operations
> > in the controller, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe you're right. And yes, we
> probably
> > should have a controller like that...
>
> I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do here either, but Matthias Ettrich
> really must have struck a chord with me when he complained about how much
> each frontend had to implement. Just chewing the cud here...
Na. We're following a sensible development cycle:
implement something with what facilities and manpower we have
see some common areas
isolate those areas and extract to common support code
write all new stuff using that better idea
goto 1
Simple iteration. Not a waterfall model but closer to the extreme
programming model. The overall abstraction remains the same (give or take
a little) and its the implementation that evolves. You don't end up
throwing away much code since it forms the basis for the common code when
extracted.
All Matthias (actually Asger I would argue) did is bring the consideration
of separation of VC sooner.
Allan. (ARRae)
