[Adium-devl] MSNp15 (libpurple im.pidgin.pidgin) in Adium 1.3.x

[Marcos Saraiva]

If you can help improve the code, why not help them instead? I do care if
the code is a mess, but if it can be improved, why not?
Marcos Saraiva


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 16:37, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Marcos Saraiva <msaraiva at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Again, as a user, i have to add my $0.02 cents. Just look at the thread
> > where Dimmuxx used to release unofficial Adium builds...it was full of
> > people giving positive feedback and thanking him for making a build with
> > MSNP15 readily available to all, because it has more features than msnp9
> > (and also msn-pecan) and is stable enough for daily usage. And to
> > corroborate that, i'm building Adium myself and moved to trunk, for the
> sole
> > reason that MSNP15 is available there. I'd really like you to look at the
> > situation without being biased by the fact that you mantain msn-pecan.
>
> I'm not biased. Of course I'm defending my project, but I also
> understand your position. If you follow common sense msnp15 is the
> right choice. What I'm trying to make you understand is that
> appearances are deceiving.
>
> It's not biased to say the code of msnp15 is inferior, it's a fact
> that I can prove, but apparently you are not interested. If it works
> great for you and for some people that doesn't mean the code is good.
>
> In fact, I helped to stabilize msnp15. Masca told me there was one
> weird issue nobody could find the cause, so I decided to help and in
> the process I found an horrendous piece of code that made me wonder
> how is it possible that the whole thing actually works.
>
> The solution I suggested and that QuLogic implemented was to revert
> back the old, and correct, behavior.
>
> Are you telling me that the issues I found are not there? Is it just my
> bias?
>
> There is code that works by chance, it might work fine today, and then
> suddenly break horribly. That is why code has values: readability,
> documentation, maintainability, modularity. And why code reviewing,
> and refactoring are highly valued.
>
> [1] http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2008-June/006161.html
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras
>
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