Hi, On Saturday, 25. September 2004 08:14, Kenneth Porter wrote: > You do understand that this goes completely against the robust Unix policy > of modularity? By separating tasks into modules, bugs in one module are > easy to track and don't easily "infect" others. Fixes are easily deployed. > End user customization and development of new and complex applications > becomes possible. Geez. The guy just wants to have a useful app. He doesn't want to know about software design and engineering. He doesn't need to know and he probably doesn't care whether 5 or six apps are unified behind a GUI or one big app is doing it all. Explanations such as yours may apply to software engineers and designers but not to common day users. This is just alienating people from Linux. > Simplicity is important, though, and you don't have to give that up for > modularity. You just need someone to provide an integration script for the > specific problem you want to simplify, tying together the modules and > plugging in the needed arguments and options. For Christ's sake just give him the answer he wants... regards, Tobias W.
