re: gnibbles, choosing time to spend on level

[Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:22 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> Maybe this would be a good time to ask Callum to clarify how he feels
> about having these options in the codebase (accessibly through gconf or
> otherwise) but not necessarily having them included in the Graphic User
> Interface?
> 
> I assume that if such changes make the codebase more generalised and
> easier to maintain and you would be likely to accept them.
> 
As a rule of thumb I like to have a clean interface with the minimum of
options. If people are having to tweak things to get what they want then
we are probably giving them the wrong thing in the first place.

Generalising the code is nice, but any patch has to be balanced against
the testing the current code has received. A lot of the code is quite,
quite, dodgy and cleaning it up is a no-brainer. Other times it isn't so
clear.

 - Callum