From: Guillaume L. <gla...@te...> - 2003-01-19 15:19:17
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On Sunday 19 January 2003 14:39, Chris Cannam wrote: > and frankly I believe the approach of making the note names into > simple tokens in base/ and keeping all the user-presentable stuff in > gui/ is a far better one than switching base/ from std::string to > QString. I grant you that. > > - certainly save time now by making things much simpler for us. > > Hang on, let's not lose sight of what we're talking about here. We're > talking about a choice between > > 1. Leave things the way they are > 2. Refactor all instances of std::string in base/ and gui/ to > use QString instead. > > Which of those two "saves time now"?? For fuck's sake, even given > that you believe that using QString is a good principle in base/ > (which obviously Rich and I do not) you're still suggesting pissing > about with strings to no good end when there are plenty of more > worthwhile things needing doing. > > btw, do not take that as a cue to make the change and commit it "just > to show how easy it was". It'd only waste time while I reverted it. Oh please, of course I'm not going to do that. It's quite obvious to me such a the change wouldn't be trivial, it would probably take a week, may be a bit less. However, us fooling around with std::string has probably cost us more already, and will keep on costing us more as well. That's all. -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org |