Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Kickstarter

[Richard B. <ric...@fe...>]

On 8 May 2012, at 21:49, "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <te...@pa...> wrote:

> It's the complexity that hurts.  Part of the line count contributes to
> taming the complexity, such as having each class in a separate file, and
> each command or dialog in a class.  That part is healthy.

Agree.

> How could we trim the complexity?  I'll throw two ideas out there, just
> for the sake of discussion.
> 
> * In principle we could re-merge some "mapped" classes with their "base"
> counterparts.  They spend a fair bit of code just staying in sync, or
> trying to.  But that's a lot of work and error opportunities just to keep
> things working about the way they are.

Yes but easily tested and would flatten things somewhat nicely.

> * What if we used garbage collection? 

Absolutely.  With the sentiments.

R