Re: [glob2-devel] Refactoring

[Bradley Arsenault]

On 5/1/06, Cyrille Dunant <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > It's not lazyness, I talked about char* removal and the ellipsis problem
> > with Stéphane Magnenat, he told me to look at boost since we already depend
> > on it. If you have a better idea, fine, please expose it.
> > Reimplement everything all the time isn't a good solution too but if you
> > have an idea to replace xxxprintf wich is not a cut n paste of boost, I'm
> > open (even if there is work as opposed to what you said)
>
> No, now, it is too late anyway, we already depend on boost, so we might as
> well use it...
>
> Of course, _stripping_ the boost dependency would be a worthwhile endeavour :)
>
> --
> -- Cyrille Dunant
> -- EPFL-IMX-LMC
> --
>
>    Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
>
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Dependancies are by no means evil, they are quite the opposite.

The dependancy itself can be a pain, but by depending on the library,
you have saved yourself countless hours of programming, and countless
more hours of debugging. Plus, if you have used a reputable library,
you are likely getting the code from someone who knows the topic of
the library *better* *than* *you*, which means it may have been
designed better than your way.

As well, the added dependancy isn't much of a pain at all. So what if
you have to download and compile an extra library when you reinstall
your os. 5 minutes of work, 10 minutes if your slow. Excuse me, but
spending hours writing code yourself to save 5 minutes downloading
from someone else is a very, very stupid idea