Re: [AD] Indexed datafiles

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 11:11 +0100, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> No, it means deciding what the API should look like (I think we did that?), 
> adding the NULL vtable entries and streamlining the proposed 4.2 code.
> Remember that 4.3's graphics system is (right now) implemented on top of 
> 4.2 vtables. Implementing the proposed 4.2 way should be (about) as hard 
> as applying it to 4.2 itself.

I don't think we decided on vtables yet. We should probably soon.

> 
> > OTOH, all time spent into the 4.2 branch is lost on the 4.3 branch..
> 
> Which is exactly why we released 4.2 when we did (well, several months 
> after we wanted to, but anyway): to get ahead and do things for 4.3 rather 
> than keep hacking things into 4.2 itself.

Yes. So, things like datafile indexing or config file listing can go
into 4.2 (they require no extra work), but new things go into 4.3. Which
means, we should apply those two to 4.2 in any case, right?

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Elias Pschernig