[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Question about client coding

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jérôme Plût wrote:

> Another, very related, question: I noticed that some of the
> gui-specific functions don't call common functions (such as those in
> client/text.c about the unit popup tooltips) whenever possible, but
> rather reimplement the very same thing by themselves. In my view this
> is not a very bright idea, since it only makes the job of the coders
> more difficult; but since I'm new to the freeciv code I suppose there
> must be a good reason to keep it this way?
text.c is a rather new file and not every piece of code uses it yet. 
Patches that convert code to use text.c functions are welcome.
-jason