[svlug] StarOFfice to be GPL'd, integrated with Gnome

[J C Lawrence]

<<I'm a little surprised here: People still actually read Slashdot?>>

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:24:58 -0700 
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> (Synopsis: Developer details how the snarl of excessive
> dependencies in GNOMEified apps has gotten out of hand, and how
> poorly the message was received when he un-did the unnecessary
> dependencies on multiple GNOME packages on the GtkHTML utility.)

Oddly enough I've been having a similar fight in my professional
life.  Code re-use is a Good Thing, but so are cleanly abstracted
module interfaces, well defined dependency interfaces, and a
layering model approach to building your dependency graphs.

Makes for more maintainable code as well.

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