What's over the horizon?

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Sat Apr 7 19:24:05 UTC 2007


Hi martin

Some sophiers told me that indeed debugging tweak app is nearly  
impossible.
what I heard is that there are far too much emitted signals. So  
there  are compressed
so if you have a stream A X B Y Z C emitted you get
ABC XYZ

Stef

On 7 avr. 07, at 14:43, Martin Wirblat wrote:

> tim Rowledge wrote:
>>
>> Wellllll..... I'd have to dispute that somewhat. My 600MHz RISC OS  
>> machine (same cpu as many PDAs) really doesn't do to well with  
>> Morphic. Now morphic is a fine idea in a lot of ways but  
>> substantial chunks of the implementation simply blow chunks. Part  
>> of the problem is that old issue of lack of doc leading to people  
>> abusing the classes and then that bad code getting enthroned as an  
>> example to later unfortunates. Tweak has some nice ideas too, but  
>> to be honest it's been driving us nuts a lot of the time over in  
>> SophieLand. Debugging..... aargh!
>
> Tim,
>
> do you think Tweak is harder to debug than Morphic and could you  
> explain how or why it is so hard? I have not used Tweak myself yet  
> because of the uncertainty that comes with its future (at least  
> from my point of view) but I had high hopes on it.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>




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