[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.
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>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.
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>http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Development_Techniques/Programmer%27s_Dozen
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>Casper
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On Behalf Of Brian Palmer
>>Sent: 17. november 2005 07:36
>>To: 'ReactOS Development List'
>>Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question
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>>Alex,
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>>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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