[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] per: Adding generalised calendar. Calendars can now ... (PR#1964)

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:33:42PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > The idea is that the modpack authors describe the calendar in detail
> > and than this calendar is put into the tree. So it will be in the next
> > release or people can use the CVS.
> 
> Person A comes to the list, claiming that he is writing a modpack that
> needs a specific calendar B. He can't write C, though.
> 
> So what happens next?
> 
> 1. He is ignored. Every coder is busy with his own pet project. He goes
> away and there is no modpack.
> 
> 2. Someone writes him a calendar. There is some discussion, maybe some
> early versions of the modpack are posted. The calendar is put into cvs.
> Time passes. By the time the next release is done the modpack is forgotten
> and its author is busy elsewhere.
> 
> 3. Someone writes him a calendar AND the modpack continues to be updated
> for a long time.
> 
> Which is more probable? I think 1 is a lot more probable than 2, and 2 is
> a lot more probable than 3, leading to
> 
> 4. CVS gets full of calendar code that nobody uses but there is always
> _someone_ who says "oh it can be useful" or "I play that modpack
> sometimes" so the code cannot be removed. The maintainers get wary of
> adding even more calendars, leading to ... see point 1 above.

yes, this is a dumb idea.

not to worry Per, I'll release some non-source-code-encumbered code
tomorrow.

-mike