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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 30 May 1997 20:50:57 +0200
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

>  > I don't like all the philosophising about adding pictures to
>  > Texinfo and similar, without ever seeing the actual code.
>  > widget.el is finished, my rewrite is finished and works better
>  > than what we have now.
> 
> It doesn't matter, or at least it doesn't matter enough.  We must
> keep our eyes on maintenance costs.

Maintainance is the reason I've done it.  My version is easier to
maintain, and I'm here to help.

> It is the cost we pay and pay and pay.  Plenty of people can
> maintain Texinfo and HTML pages if you die, or become Vice President
> of Operations at Amnesiac, or whatever.  Can't say the same for the
> Widget library, no matter how nice it is.  Also if you do it
> correctly now, more man-hours won't have to be consumed doing the
> job over, later.

I cannot write the Texinfo parser.  I *can* write about.el.  And I
did.

If you add images et al. to Texinfo, I'll gladly dump my precious
implementation down the drain.  Until you do, I hope Steve will accept 
my version simply because it is better and more maintainable than what 
we have now.

Implementation of about.el with widget is not "nice" in the sense of
elegance, but it's infinitely nicer than about.el in 20.2 or 19.15.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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