Re: 2.2 and 2.4 features?

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:21:25AM -0400, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 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)

Have we reached some strange plateau where you two don't have enough
work to do at the moment? Too little email to read? :-)

Malcolm