On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Martin Nordholts <enselic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How is it a problem that our code becomes so easy that even "dumb" > programmers can understand and improve it when we are not forced to > include patches from such "dumb" programmers? This not how I understood mitch... I understood it as a valid concern that if basics are hidden way another layer new contributors never learn basics at all. And where that leads I have seen on some java developers first hand. It leads to My personal option is sort of split on this. On one hand less there is boilerplate code, less there are chances of making white-space errors, on the other... I looked into to the pdb recently... The perl generator code there was a huge hindrance to understanding and writing the code plus what mitch talked about. For me personally the GObject boilerplate never was an issue. There was plenty of code to copy-paste from even if I did not understand it completely. Besides, you ever write it once per class and if it changes it's a lot of quick and straightforward fixes. What is an issue is UI maintenance. Having to manually stack GTK containers without any preview is absolute pain. Once I used glade to get my structure right and then translated it into code... So whats wrong with finding away to make use of the GTKBuilder more? -- --Alexia _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
