The fall of KDE?

[marc]

Willy Hamra said...

> as for why KDE4 is not an improved KDE3? this was discussed in another
> thread. rewrite is much cleaner and better.

Depends on the progs and the dev process. But if they aren't bringing 
their test with them, then all bets are off.

> it's tiring, it's hard,
> for both developers and end-users, but the end result is much better
> than improving

Well, agile development works on the principle of refactoring, which has 
a lot of weight behind it showing that it is a extremely powerful and 
successful dev process. So, no "improving" can in fact be much, much 
better than rewriting.

> which usually causes loads of bloat, unused code here
> and there, code that is just accumulating over the years, bugs moving
> on, etc...

Only when you have no idea what you are doing. "Bloat" is much misused, 
but usually comes about through retaining features for backward 
compatibility. Ime, this is usually marketing driven rather than reality 
driven - apologies for the tautology :-)

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Cheers,
Marc