Re: 2.2 and 2.4 features?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 23 Sep 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 19:04, Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> > If infinite abstraction made sense, we should have exactly one API
> > consisting of a single function:
> > 
> > void gnome_do_what_i_mean(void);
> > 
> > ...and the implementation would be up to a plugin.
> 
> 	I think there is a dearth of semantic richness in that; better still,
> we could describe what we mean as an arbitary byte-stream [ or better a
> 'string' ] of 'machine instructions' and simply do:
> 
> 	gnome_do_what_i_describe (guchar *description);
> 
> 	We could even write that in shell, and the great thing about strings is
> they're forward / backward compatible. [cf. the 'x86' string]

You're both clearly too low-level here. We need to solve *real* users needs: 

  gnome_generate_money (void)

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