Re: Programmer's criticism of GTK2

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 23:47, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> "Norman Black" <stonybrk ix netcom com> writes: 
> > For simplified functionality one can provide a simplified interface. The
> > GTK developers apparently decided to blow that off. After all, why
> > should they write that code once, when all of us can each write such a
> > thing for ourselves, or we can deal with the complexity on each an every
> > instance we use the control.
>
> You're right, our goal is to fuck you over and write sucky APIs. And
> then we make the source code and development mailing lists closed, to
> keep you from contributing to or commenting on the APIs as they are
> plotted in our evil minds. Don't get me started on the private bug
> database that no one can see or add to.
hey, I had my suspitions that that was your intentions, specially after
seeing that GtkSuckyWidgetForYouToDieDesperately, but needed a
confirmation. I'm gonna tell The Register about this right now... :-)

How haven't we (all the GNOME project and all the app developers that
use GTK) found that out long time ago! Thanks Norman for opening our
eyes!!

cheers
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