[Xastir-dev] extern void update_image()

[Jerry Dunmire]

Sorry to reply to my own message- but I think I should clarify- I'm OK
with you telling me to stop bothering you and the list with trivia if
I carry on too long. I wasn't threating to stop contributing! I'm
having too much fun right now :-)

...jerry


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Jerry Dunmire <jerry at dunmire.org> wrote:
> Sure- I'm not proposing to do a code review, just fix things as I
> notice them and/or the impact my development. I'm bothering you and
> the list right now because I'm a newbie and I don't have the
> historical back ground (like for xastir_snprintf). At some point I'll
> be more comfortable with the code and if that doesn't happen soon
> enough it's OK to tell me that I should stop.
>
> ...jerry
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:
>>
>>> Great. I'll clean this up in a future patch.
>>>
>>> The 'static' qualifier does not seem to be used much in this program.
>>> Is that just historical, or is there something else (perhaps to make
>>> it easier to see the symbols in a debugger)?
>>
>> Just from my perspective, there's precious little time to get done
>> what needs to be done, so coding proceeds at a frantic pace.  Errors
>> and most warnings from the compiler get fixed, some quick testing
>> may reveal bugs that get fixed, then it's committed to CVS.
>> Sometimes(?) the users find more bugs and those are fixed, hopefully
>> before the developer forgets the section of code he was working on.
>> No time/energy is allocated to doing it the "correct" or "more
>> correct" way.  Make sense?
>>
>> I think a lot of open-source projects run in a similar manner.
>> Adding new features is interesting.  Scanning existing code for
>> problems is not.  Guess what gets done more by volunteer coders?
>>
>> --
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