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From: jwbaxter@halcyon.halcyon.com
To: MACAPP3TECH$@applelink.apple.com
 
>> A LOT of the bug reports are trivial little fixes, with no worries about
>> distant side-effects, so why should every MacApp developer always have to
>> individually modify his/her MacApp source?
>
   I come from a world in which there is no such thing.  ANY change
invalidates all previous proof of correctness.  [The company had several
pretty hefty mainframes which when not otherwise engaged overnight would be
running [self-scoring] regression testing to try to validate the most
recent changes/patches.  Every bug report and change approval generated
additional regression tests based on the new information.  The regresson
testing was CONSTANTLY demonstrating that the "this cannot possibly affect
anything except..." changes actually broke lots of things.]
 
My comment is a little strong.  "No worries" however is off the mark at the
other end of the spectrum.  OOP helps move everything towards the "no
worries" end of things (when done correctly...there's a good bit of
"not-correctly" lurking in MacApp, much of it imposed by the toolbox).
 
Nonetheless, it's better for (most) needed changes to be made and proven
centrally (as I indicated in a private message of support to Dave).
   --John
 
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John W. Baxter   jwbaxter@halcyon.com   [BAXTER.JOHN on AppleLink, from
AppleLink only.]