Re: Documentation of nnoo.el

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 3. Easier hackage/extensibility. Contributors currently have very hard
>>    time figuring out how everything works; this would help. Subclassing
>>    would also make it much easier for people to write new backends, or
>>    modify existing ones.
>
> It's extremely hard to write patches for Gnus 'cause it's so hard to
> figure out what is going on.
>
> And dev. documentation is/docstrings are not the best, though user
> documentation is pretty awesome.

Which isn't to say that an EIEIO rewrite would magically result in
better documentation, but if the code were simplified at the same time
that a general overhaul were undertaken... it would make things more
comprehensible.