Re: [AD] Splitting filesystem APIs

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun April 19 2009, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> On Sat, April 18, 2009 10:45 pm, Elias Pschernig said:
> > Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> >> It is becoming clear that I have less than no say in what happens to the
> >> lib though. (I suppose thats fine, I've really only contributed this
> >> code, the old alsa 0.9/1.x driver, and a small fix for xinerama support
> >> in a5). It has made me think about evaluating how I spend my time. I'm
> >> not sure this has been entirely worth it.
> >
> > There really was nothing to gain from it all along - it's just an open
> > source project, and a very low profile one at that. If it's not fun for
> > you working on it just for, well, fun, you really shouldn't.
>
> Just so everyone knows, the file system code isn't the only part of Allegro
> that has undergone major changes. The graphics API has gone through
> upheaval at least twice. I originally implemented Bob's API and then had to
> redo it completely. Same thing happened at least one time again. So don't
> be discouraged by changing APIs. It will just make Allegro a better
> library.

Who said that was what made me frustrated? Its the entire process thats 
bugging me. I started talking about this code over a year ago at least, and 
only NOW is someone even looking at it and giving any real feed back (except 
elias, he looked at it, didn't seem to have a lot of problems).

> Trent :{)>
>
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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