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Mario Vukelic
mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Wed May 21 17:20:03 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:41 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Whoa! I _never_ said this could be done by a single generic program. Every
> app should have its config tool.
I understood that. And I asked you to outline how this might be done for
a very specific example. But see further down ...
> Test-based development practically
> enforces this, even if the tests are not strictly a config tool. Once you
> have the tests, though, the tool is just a front-end.
Again the same fallacy of assuming that the writers of the software can
foresee every use case. Not so
> I did that somewhere...
Yeah, I came across this immediately after finishing my post ... it was
a busy thread :)
The problem was, though, that your suggestion was immediately shown to
be not sufficient at all.
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