RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Freeing Memory

[.:: O. ::. <oc...@ho...>]

A voice of reason !

There's no flames from this camp.


>From: "Pascal" <pb...@oi...>
>Reply-To: dyn...@li...
>To: <dyn...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Freeing Memory
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:54:48 +0100
>
>Well to get this said in time:
>
>I think that any moves towards a DynAPI3 should be on a seperate 
>sourceforge
>project (or atleast other location).
>
>I have absolutely no interest in doing everything all over again or even
>participating in a venture like that.
>
>The DynAPI2 has been in development for little more then a year  now, and 
>we
>"made" everyone drop the dynapi1 in favour of DynAPI2 saying "dynapi1 is
>discontinued, dynapi2 will support ie55 and ns6 and other new browsers, 
>it's
>better more flexible and you should just use it"
>
>Now you guys are thinking about doing it all over again.. this means you'r
>saying to all the users (and there are ALOT)  sorry people, now you'll have
>to use this unfinished-slightly-not-100%-working version of a crossbrowser
>library  because we're going to redo everything.
>
>Most people here haven't been involved with the full developing of the
>DynAPI, I can think of only 3 persons at this moment that have been
>participating in the development for this long period (and still only about
>3-5 persons doing all the stuff: documentation, bug fixing, patches,
>administrating, etc).
>
>In one more year, alot of you will have abonded the API3 completely, 
>leaving
>only a few guys on board.. the API will work crossbrowser partially, and 
>not
>fully supporting the latest browsers (by that time something like versions
>110 of those browsers and DOM20)... Seen it happen already with this code,
>don't want to redo it just to end up with the same thing.
>
>In the beginning we had clean code, it was backwards compatible and was 
>nice
>to look at, but didn't had the powerfull functionality it has now.. There's
>not much wrong with the current API, the only thing is that no body ever
>took the time to go thru the code and optimise it. I for one will keep
>working on THIS version of the API and know it can be cleaned up, and make
>it work on any other future browsers coming our way.
>
>let the flaming begin.
>
>Pascal Bestebroer (pb...@oi...)
>Software ontwikkelaar
>Oberon Informatiesystemen b.v.
>http://www.oibv.com
>
>
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