Re: [Passwordsafe-devel] TODO list comments

[Jim R. <ji...@ru...>]

> 1. (installer)
> 	I agree in principle about it being OpenSource & portable --
> except by nature, installers are OS specific.  And the current method of
> a "not install beyond unzipping" is the best, and we should try our
> hardest to preserve this.

Truth be told, I agree with this.  That came from Bruce, who's looking 
for Password Safe to be mainstream enough for normal people (not like 
us) to use.  I dunno -- self-extracting zip file, anyone?

> 4. (.DAT)
> 	In addition to merely allowing extensions besides .dat, we
> should move to using a unique extension for our standard.  I suggest
> ".pwsafe"

Yeah, I know.  Whose idea was .DAT as the default extension?

> 14. (resize & safe position)
> 	Note that it's far easier to make a dialog box resize, than it
> would be to convert Pwsafe into a non-dialog based application.  

I don't know why I didn't think of that.  Perfect.

I'm not going to comment on each of your notes, other than to say 
you've got some good comments that I will attempt to merge into 
the current TODO.

> Porting:
> 	I'd particularly like to see a PocketPC version.  I'd be willing
> to work on that port.

Seems to me that the first order of business is to separate the 
'engine' from the 'frontend', and then use the 'engine' for 
ports.  This way the current MFC code can be isolated (far away
from decent code <ahem>).

> General TODO comments:
> 	In the status column, "undone" should be "not done".  "Undone"
> implies that you implemented it, realized a problem, and backed the
> change out.   

There is no way in hell I'm changing that.  The word "undone" with the 
meaning "not done" was around long before Ctrl-Z.  Have you never heard 
that some things are best left undone?  What about 'unappreciated'?  
Does that mean 'was appreciated, but then the appreciation was removed'?
Or how about 'unequal'?  'Undying'?

> 	Also, the status of #13 (XP) should be listed as "Closed" or
> "not a bug", since nothing was actually "Done".

Ah, well there you have me, but I'll probably not change that either.


Jim R