RE: [AD] Allegro generalization/extension mechanism

["Robert Ohannessian" <ROhannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We've had many discussions on this issue in the past. Just dig up the
mail archive!



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> From: alleg-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alleg-
> developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of guilt
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:20 PM
> To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [AD] Allegro generalization/extension mechanism
> 
> The separation will accomplish one major thing: it would be easier to
> edit one part of the library without worrying as to how the other
> parts will be affected. Ideally, There won't be any global variable
> usage hacks at all ...
> 
> Second, as Elias pointed out, the internal structure of Allegro is
> small, and the power user can vary his binary distribution according
> to his needs. And yet, it wouldn't make any difference to him from the
> normal-end-user perspective.
> 
> Third, it's more of a developers concern than an end-user-thing. It's
> easier to have things edited side by side .. it leads to better, more
> robust release cycles..
> 
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:11:44 -0800, Chris <chris.kcat@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > guilt wrote:
> > > I'm not saying that the whole thing must be distributed
separately..
> > > release it like "allegro-project-4.3.x" which contains
"allegro-base"
> > > and "allegro-impl" and "allegro-stdext" ... if you like.. but
within
> > > that, make sure that "everything is present". All I'm saying is
that,
> > > make it "modular". It's easier to maintain Alegro that way...
> >
> > If they're all gonna be distributed in the same package, and all be
> > maintained by the same developers, why seperate them? What will it
> > accomplish? Allegro can be (and already is, somewhat) modular
without
> > having to be split up into seperate libs.
> >
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