Re: That Linux Guy <thatlinuxguy@hotmail.com>,Re: Of Bundling, Dao and Cowardice

bill davidsen
2002-02-18T17:37:24Z

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0202161713420.1930-100000@imladris.surriel.com> you write:

>I don't quite agree on the "more trouble" part either,
>in the end it is MUCH more trouble when a big blob of
>code gets integrated than when a series of small changes
>get applied one by one.

I would say "more than one idea" here, if something need changes in a
lot of places, so be it, they often won't work except as a whole. You
don't cross vast chasms in a series of small safe steps.

Hanging multiple indenpendent things in a single blob is bad practice,
of course.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Programming without software engineering is like sculpting with a chain
saw. The very talented can produce a work of art, the mediocre wind up with
a misshapen lump in a pile of rubble, and in neither case does the end
result have more than a passing resemblance to the original intent.