Re: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question

[Alex Ionescu]

Hi Casper,

For once we agree! By the way, what do you think about the new 
development model being used at Microsoft and other places... something 
related to extreme programming, but I forgot the name...did you read 
about it.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

Casper Hornstrup wrote:
> If it isn't used, it should be removed to achieve minimalism. Subversion enables
> us to get it back the day it need to be used.
>
> I recently added a reference to Kevlin Henney's paper "Programmer's Dozen" in wiki.
> He mentions minimalism amongst other issues. It's a good read on how to write
> maintainable source code.
>
> http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Development_Techniques/Programmer%27s_...
>
> Casper
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Brian Palmer
> > Sent: 17. november 2005 07:36
> > To: 'ReactOS Development List'
> > Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question
> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > I don't see the point of what you are trying to do. IIRC, all of
> > FreeLoader's code is organized like the UI stuff - you just make generic
> > calls and the abstraction code handles the details. It's kind of like C++
> > objects, only not. Take, for instance, FreeLoader's file system code, it is
> > the exact same way. You just call generic routines like open, close, read,
> > and write, and the file system code checks what file system it is and
> > redirects the function call accordingly.
> >
> > Unless I don't understand what you are proposing, it sounds like you want to
> > just lump all the UI code into one huge file. And I think that is a step
> > backward from the current design. I'll admit that checking the UI type on
> > every call and calling the GUI code or the TUI code isn't the most efficient
> > way. And you could make it more efficient by setting up pointers to
> > functions.
> >
> > But unless you are talking about removing the GUI code altogether (it isn't
> > used currently) you will still have to do the checks to see if DrawBox(),
> > etc. needs to go to the TUI code or the GUI code. Now don't get me wrong, I
> > don't think removing the GUI code is the right thing to do. It is a very
> > good starting point for someone to make a graphical menu system for
> > FreeLoader. It would be very cool someday to be able to set a company logo
> > or something as background image in the boot screen.
> >
> > I'd like to know more about what you are thinking...
> >
> > -Brian
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