[Xastir-dev] Xastir Requirements Capture

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:03:06PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> >  Requirements are not Feature Requests.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> Along those lines, where does multiple client support fall?  Do we/you
> (you the developers, not necessarily you Tom) decide which platforms
> to put on the list as requirements, or do we restrict it to a single
> platform to get the ball rolling?

Portability needs to be a requirement up front, as it will be a restriction
on design choices down the line, e.g. selection of external libraries, language,
and UI design (one can encapsulate UI if one works hard enough, and 
keep platform-specific things where they belong).

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