On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:25:42PM +0200, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Yup, some of the people in this discussion are aware of and to various
> degrees buy into XP. However, the assumptions of XP are pretty stretched
> by the realities. I think Eric S Raymonds "The cathedral and the bazaar"
> and related papers are more relevant.

XP isn't a silver bullet. It tends to work well in certain development environments and situations so people tend to think it will be a panacea in ALL development situations.

CATB is not entirely relevant either, since Squeak seems to encompass aspects of the Cathedral (SqC/Guides) and Bazaar (the rest of us jabronies) within the same project.

Squeak is a different software project entirely from Linux, Mozilla, Perl, or something like that. And each of those employ their own methodologies with varying degrees of success. I think the thing to do when considering how to go about developing or improving a piece of software is to look for "design patterns" in your methodology and use the ones which work best. (There, another methodology buzzword. :))

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Jeff Read <bitwize at snet.net>