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I'm actually on my way to my baccalaureate ceremony right now, but I do
want to say that I feel very strongly that API changes for the sake of API
changes should not be checked in. The current API, while not always
intuitive, is well documented and well known, across my HOWTO (and several
translations of the HOWTO) as well as both the O'Reilly and Apress books.
I have not had time this week to do more than scan the other emails, so I
have no idea exactly how in-depth these "reworkings" are. I'll read them
and comment in depth next week, but my initial impression was "these names
are not standard so lets change them" and at this point I don't feel that
is a good enough rationale.
Sorry that I don't have time for this right now-
Luis
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
> In article <3AFBDCF8.ACBC34AE@durham.ac.uk>, Kieran Elby wrote:
> > My only concern with these proposed changes is possible increased memory
> > usage.
>
> I don't imagine that these changes will increase memory usage much,
> since they are largely just re-working existing features. I will look
> into the memory usage before releasing, though. In fact, I think that
> after I redid the networking a bit and added the reliable protocol, it
> was no larger than before, because I was able to eliminate some buffers.
>
> --matt
>
>
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| I agree with most of Luis statement. I've worked for three years in the embedded software development (for cars), and I think it's quite dangerous to have RCX functions with the same name that Unix ones, because they don't do the same thing. Using (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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